Sentences with phrase «at first the conversation»

They were handing out some anti-Mormon stuff (I served in Utah, for context), and at first the conversation was somewhat hostile.

At the first conversation itself, the seekers speak of their needs.

Not exact matches

«It's a place for staff to go and release a little bit of stress, continue the work conversation and build camaraderie,» says CEO Sanjay Malaviya, taking a sip of his first beer of the day at 4:30 on a recent afternoon.

But here's the key: If you're in a conversation at a work - related function or meeting someone to talk business for the first time, your best move is not to ask work - or business - related questions; it's to discover common ties with that person that will steer the conversation back to the «work stuff,» but with a deeper connection.

Even so, he noted that having hard, yet necessary conversations with his co-founder and friend was challenging at first.

Top executives at Uber used the encrypted chat app Wickr to hold secret conversations, current and former workers testified in court this week, setting up what could be the first major legal test of the issues raised by the use of encrypted apps inside companies.

And at the Consumer Electronics Show in the first week of January, Amazon dominated the conversation.

The first five minutes of a conversation at a networking event usually involve introductions and polite small talk.

She suggests having conversation - starting questions at the ready, staying current on the headlines of the day and speaking up at a meeting within the first few minutes before someone else can capture the spotlight.

Goldman's questions — neither of which typically pop up in polite conversation — may seem shocking at first.

«I am absolutely a contrarian,» he tells me at Whole Foods» Austin headquarters in one of the first of our many conversations for this story.

«When we first started Wrappup, our vision was to put back the focus on conversations itself, and let AI do the hard work,» added Ayush Chordia, co-founder and CTO, Wrappup, who will now be Director of Engineering and Applied Research at Voicera.

Remember that chatbots can use AI to learn from every conversation, so you can create a simple version at first and implement more features slowly to create an efficient, problem - solving machine.

Here's a conversation we don't want to miss: Black - ish actress and all - around brilliant bae Tracee Ellis Ross will interview our forever first lady, Michelle Obama, this Saturday, May 5, at the United State of Women Summit at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles — and we officially know how we're spending this weekend.

This summer, over dinner at a restaurant only 400 feet from Foursquare's headquarters, Selvadurai had his first on - the - record conversation about the exit.

Last week: The tectonic shift in the conversation about gun regulations, school safety and mental health since the murder of 17 faculty and students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is nothing less than amazing when, in defiance of the NRA, it produced the first successful gun control measure in Florida in over two decades!

Dalio explains, «I started by exploring the qualities of Jobs and other shapers with Isaacson, at first in a private conversation in his office, and later at a public forum at Bridgewater.

You won't be very successful at appointment setting if you set off your prospect's «sales pitch alarm» at the first line of the conversation.

She didn't mind at first because the conversation seemed to be business - related.

But if you do, rather than condemn me to the pit of hell for being of the spirit of the antichrist, can we at least have a cordial conversation first?

And, while we can be glad that we no longer burn each other at the stake over these issues, their conversation was proof that many of the disputes which the Reformation first gave rise to are still a going concern today.

Recently at a summer bonfire, I overhead the tail end of a conversation between my husband and his friends as Joel evidently described our first date.

In her conversation with Pam Rhodes for Premier Christianity, she revealed that at her first communion, aged seven, she sang «Suffer Little Children To Come Unto Me» and «O Mary Mother Sweetest Best».

In the «intellectual conversations» you have at your church, do you all ever bring up the reason you believe that a first - century man who perfectly fits his time as a Jewish revolutionary against Roman rule, who died in the same manner as most revolutionaries and blasphemers, became your god?

I'm asking for prayer because this represents a critical turning point in the project in which I will be engaging in some important conversations with those who might not, at first glance, agree with me.

I think part of me didn't even hear what he was saying at first because I thought that it was just a continuation of a conversation about not believing in the God that we had accepted for a long time.

Or perhaps the kind of immortality Goethe allowed to his friend Wieland, when he said in his conversation with Falk: «I would not be at all surprised if I met Wieland again some thousands of years hence as a star of the first magnitude..., and saw with my own eyes how he infused everything around him with a pleasant light.»

I'd get a potential customer on the phone, deliver the pitch (in a tone strikingly similar to the door - to - door magazine salesman in «Office Space»), and at the first sign of hesitation on the customer's part, apologize for calling at dinnertime and hurriedly end the conversation.

I was tempted at first to give maybe a 10 point list of advice for parents going through deconstruction in front of their kids... things like let them see the books you read and answer their curiosities about them; teach your kids how to think, not how to believe; tell them everything you're going through and let them deal with what it means for them; ask them what they believe and listen objectively and engage in conversation about it; openly share your struggles with what you're going through with the church and let them process it themselves, and so on.

We at First Things have been privileged to become perhaps the central site for these conversations, which I only expect to deepen and broaden with time.

Peter bucks at first, saying Christianity was just «how he was raised,» and he can't give it up, but the conversation begins to shake him.

But we should be careful here and elsewhere not to shut off the conversation before it has begun — and to hope that in fact it will turn out to go further than either camp might have at first expected.

But after many months among Rusty and the others in the office, along with conversations and correspondence with First Things writers and readers, our web columnists and the attendees at seminars and retreats, the horizon has expanded.

Neuhaus» «While We're At It» in the June / July Issue of First Things quoting Elizabeth Marquardt's Letter to the Editor in the New York Times, and general conversation floating around the First Things office.

That Jesus would mention this first as the thread of continuity between the two communities means at least that common suffering for the way of God in the world should season all conversations between the two communities on matters institutional and theological.

Before that, I was in Ft. Smith Arkansas, where I had the pleasure of experiencing 1) the incredibly gracious congregation of First Presbyterian Church, Ft. Smith, which included several 80 + year - old - ladies who expressed interest in marrying Dan should I be open to a sister wife, 2) the famous, award - winning restrooms at the Ft. Smith airport (for real; they are ranked among the Top 10 Airport Bathrooms in the U.S.), 3) amazing conversation with a group women at Miss Anne's Pie Place.

This is the second time in recent months I've found myself talking about coconut oil, the first being with an off - duty male midwife who my wife and I ran into at Wal - Mart one night, and that conversation somehow steered it's way into the realm of natural birth.

In their first moments, when Jaime approaches Ser Bronn, the sellsword, about retrieving his «niece» Myrcella (i.e., his daughter) from Dorne, Bronn is hot off a conversation about pigeon pie at his wedding.

The Conversation's FactCheck has become the first fact - checking team in Australia and one of only two worldwide accredited by the International Fact - Checking Network at the US - based Poynter Institute.

He wrote: «There was a moment during the first real, in - depth conversation that I had with Brendan Rodgers when I looked at him and it hit me: «He's right.»

It's the team's first game at home after a slate of away games, and at the door, it's not long before the conversation shifts to McDavid.

The impetus behind Monday's stunning news was from a conversation Penske and Montoya first had while standing on the grid for the August NASCAR race at Michigan.

After a prolonged pre-negotiation where Monaco made their stance very clear and was, at the time asking less than half the 80 million asking price, Arsenal came with a first offer that was considered insulting and out of left field based on the conversations they had been having with us.

Lobov could have just kept walking away after the first exchange but he came back at Khabib and Co, and then nothing happened more than a conversation.

Komansky, who has roughly 1,000 different pins, claims he had his first «conversation» in Russian while standing on a ski slope at the Sarajevo Winter Games next to a Soviet army officer.

Long's is my first conversation that shifts away from Pasadena sunshine to the football matters at hand.

Whoever decided to have this game at 12:30 on a Saturday (1): I've managed to get a transcript of the conversation, between two individuals, which led to this scheduling: «Sick idea boiz, let's have both Liverpool n City play on Sat, after they've just played on Wed lololololol» «Gr8 idea m8, let me just finish hoovering up my curtains first».

McIlroy, whose anti-Olympics comments dominated the conversation ahead of Thursday's first round, let his clubs do the talking at the start, going out in 3 - under 32.

Paul will discuss How Children Succeed in a community conversation at Ottawa Hills High School, 2055 Rosewood Ave SE, presented by First Steps, the Grand Rapids Public Schools, and Believe 2 Become.

At first, they were just a familiar comfort for she and I both as we struggled to have a conversation.