Sentences with phrase «at functions in»

At the Toronto event Mayor Rob Ford spoke on a number of local issues while Durham Region's Chief Administrative Officer Roger Anderson and his counterpart in York Region Bill Fisch did likewise at functions in those areas.

He also chose works by artists he knew and liked, such as Howard Hodgkin, Peter Liversidge, Roger Hilton and Tacita Dean, and came across work which won him over by artists he was unfamiliar with, such as Rachel Lowe and Hurvin Anderson, whose large work Peter's 1 — showing a barber's shop set up in someone's home — normally hangs over guests at functions in 11 Downing Street.

Saoirse recently finished filming on her new movie with Domhnall Gleeson entitled Brooklyn, leaving herself free to mingle with all the celebs, including Hollywood A-listers Cate Blanchett, Julianne Moore and Zoe Saldana, who were all spotted at functions in France's movie capital.

«We will continue to import more Australian products,» he said repeatedly at functions in Canberra and Sydney.

Clooney also joked with the AP and said he used to clean his own vomit off his tuxedos, presumably after too many adult beverages at functions in Tinseltown, but now he still has vomit on his tuxedos because of the babies.

Speaking Tuesday at a function in Washington, D.C., Kendall noted that the technological superiority the U.S. enjoyed at the end of the Cold War has atrophied in significant ways.

At this function in his honor he said publicly that he was ill at ease on the green lawns of the presidential palace; he wanted to be back among the forest trees and the mountain people.

Nkanga is renouned in causing ethnic division and hatred, as military governor in Akwa Ibom state, he brought so much hatred between the Annang and the Ibibios, he banned the Annang language in the state and accused Annang people of putting JUJU on his seat at a function in Ikot Ekpene, He is Godswll Akabio's house boy, a campaign manager who could not win elections for his party in his polling unit, Akpabio is promoting the rivers crisis and so those his apologist Nkanga, Nigerians and the good people of rivers should never take a man like Idongesit Nkanga seriously, he is not regarded as an elder in Akwa Ibom where hails from.

Another outbreak affected 44 out of 150 guests at a function in the West Midlands.

«I watched him at a function in Orlando with educators ranging from classroom teachers to academicians, and he held his own at every level,» Mr. Wise said.

«The computer will be launched next month,» said HRD Minister Kapil Sibal at a function in New Delhi before also adding: «This is not just a dream, it is a reality.»

The former senator and VP may get invited to speak at every function in Minnesota and many beyond its borders, but I bet he wouldn't get so many awards if anyone saw that 6.7 when making a list of potential candidates.

Not exact matches

JM: It's mainly been that we look at our userbase, we look at where they have the most friends, and that's mainly the function of what cities we're in, just because it's really about the social connections, so when we go to a city that has a lot of friends who are already using Hinge, it makes it a lot easier for us to get off the ground.

He joined RIM in 2001 after 29 years at Motorola to oversee the crucial engineering and manufacturing functions.

I WAS at a function the other night where the Treasurer, Peter Costello, sang the praises of the Howard Government in bringing in a trade surplus for the first time since John Gorton was Prime Minister.

Alternatively, you and your partner may have different business skills, e.g. one might be good at selling and one might be skilled in performing the back office functions.

Sara Matthews, a consultant gynecologist at the Portland hospital, said that within three months of having her ovarian tissue re-implanted, Al Matrooshi went from being menopausal to having the ovary function of a normal woman in her 20s.

At the end of 2015, the team finally had a DNA - assembling system that worked, but it couldn't make the technology function in a way that complied with USDA regulations.

Conversely, if that same department finds itself functioning at an acceptable level, you can afford to bring in someone with a broader scope of abilities.

I would present it in such a way that they understand that this is what makes you happier, able to function on the task at hand better, and not that it's a deal breaker.

More importantly, the speed at which the screenshot function works empowers tons of in - game photography.

Nick Symmonds, an American middle - distance runner who won a silver medal at World Championships in Russia in 2013, was booted from Team USA for the 2015 games in Beijing because he refused to wear Nike at team functions.

Research conducted at the Department of Veterans Affairs Hospital in Northport, N.Y., concluded that a short sleep session can improve cognitive functioning and alertness, resulting in a 30 percent decline in attention failures from the baseline measure.

«Everybody worries about making mistakes,» he says, «but when it comes to choosing between working 24 hours [and risking] having your mental faculties function at less efficiency, and spreading that out over more time, most lawyers would tell you the former is more likely to result in fewer mistakes.

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.

Among the earliest and most crucial hires I make at any organization are in human - capital management and business - development functions.

According to an in - depth trend piece about the «slow reading» movement in the Wall Street Journal recently, reading can actually boost your brain function — at least if you do it regularly and right.

About a generation after small breweries with flavourful beers stormed the oligopoly that controlled the beer sector, craft beers, many of them made in micro-breweries and distributed locally, have become frothy and surprisingly upscale competitors in an industry that traditionally functioned at the meat - and - potatoes end of the alcohol spectrum.

This way, new hires can get an inside look at how the office functions and can learn ways to make their time in the office easier.

«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.»

At the console's floor are foot pedals, which function like a clutch in a manual car.

«Government agencies at all levels should consider and examine new uses for this technology that could make the government more efficient in performing its functions,» the 2018 Economic Report from the Joint Economic Committee, first posted earlier this week, stated.

In a new explainer, BI Intelligence offers a high - level look at the payments industry — how it functions, who the key players are, and the trends shaping the industry.

But in most of South Korea those functions have been limited by the government, which is technically still at war with North Korea, for national security reasons.

Researchers at the Universities of Rome and L'Aquila in Italy recently conducted a study about how eating chocolate effects brain functions like memory, attention, and processing speed.

Fianna Fail, whose backing Varadkar requires from the opposition benches to keep his government functioning, has said it will move a motion of no confidence in Fitzgerald at 2000 GMT on Tuesday unless she quits, a position that hardened on Monday.

Auto industry analyst Dennis DesRosiers, founder of DesRosiers Automotive Consultants, says a combination of function — the need for larger trucks and SUVs for rural areas — and consumer mentality means Albertans will continue to favour larger vehicles, at least in the near future.

Under Lyft's rules, a car must be a 2004 or newer (in some cities the vehicles must be at least a 2008 model), have four doors, and pass other basic safety requirements such as functioning lights and seat belts.

In the past, this might have meant asking around at a social function if anyone knew a good lawyer, doctor, home contractor and so on.

At its core of this first hackable product will be a durable aluminum profile, made of 40 percent recycled material, which creates a flexible base to build seating or bedding «where comfort and functions can be altered to meet the changing needs in a home,» IKEA said last year.

These numbers function as limits — as in, most adults simply can't juggle more than five super close relationships at once.

His research, which looks at companies like Marriott, Harrah's, and Capital One among others, highlights the role of analytics in functions ranging from supply chain and R&D to customer selection, loyalty, and service.

But like all Product of the Year winners, a jury of industry experts first narrow down the year's coolest gadgets to a short - list of finalists that excel at innovation, whether in design, function, value or even packaging.

The «how,» in that sense, is excelling at your job function, aggressively taking on more and more responsibility, and helping to make your company the best at what it does.

As for job function, frontend developers are at the bottom of the totem pole, bringing in just over $ 60,000, on average.

Physical therapy aimed at rebuilding neural pathways can often improve a patient's level of functioning in the months and years after a spinal cord injury.

«The theory is that if new industries that are not competitive are subsidized they will eventually mature and be able to function on their own,» said University of Guelph economist Glenn Fox at a conference last June, citing studies suggesting clean energy policies in Denmark, Germany and Spain are a drag on economic growth.

For example, consolidating functions in some cases may introduce internal control issues, putting your company at higher risk for fraud.

Even though Branson is a celebrity CEO (if he's not the most famous entrepreneur in the world I wonder who is), he's fulfilling a traditional function that other great hoteliers - and with the launch of Virgin Hotels he is now firmly a hotelier, though he runs his hotel brand primarily via the brand leadership of hospitality veteran Raul Leal who is his Hotels President - also take on: committing to be at the opening of every new hotel.

It's not a function of what's in your head, but where your head's at.