Sentences with phrase «at such talk»

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UPS is in talks with at least one U.S. trucking firm to launch an in - home delivery service for large, heavy goods such as couches and treadmills.

A Snap employee told the Times that the company was looking at ways to educate employees on financial management before the IPO, such as bringing in professors from Stanford to talk about how employees» lives can change after working for a company that goes public.

They can talk about neural pathways and neurotransmitters as if those big words definitively concluded anything, which they don't, at least with our current understanding of such things.

In April, Amazon announced five new language protocols that allow app builders to incorporate speech patterns such as whispering, bleeping out swear words and changing the speed at which Alexa talks.

«Merkel is struggling to keep the various factions, not only in her government, but also in Europe in line, warning against careless talk in such a feral environment warning of the serious consequences that an «uncontrolled insolvency» would bring,» said Michael Hewson, markets analyst at CMC Markets.

Contingent motivators (such as «if you do this, then that») narrow thinking and block creativity unless the tasks at hand are simple and rote, Daniel Pink said in a TED Talk «The Puzzle of Motivation.»

Friday morning Londoners, who voted by and large to remain in the EU, were walking the streets with a stunned look, and what's even odder (for English people, at least) actually talking to strangers in cafes and on trains, discussing how such a thing could happen, what would happen next, and who was to blame.

And then my son Tamerlan used to tell me that he used to talk to them too, because they called me once and they wanted his number and then at such moments.»

At a more limited round of NAFTA talks in mid-December in Washington, Guajardo said it was important to agree on key issues in order to close some NAFTA chapters such as those on food safety, telecommunications, regulatory practices, and digital commerce.

Intellifusion, a Shenzhen - based AI firm that provides technology to the city's police to display the faces of jaywalkers on large LED screens at intersections, is now talking with local mobile phone carriers and social media platforms such as WeChat and Sina Weibo to develop a system where offenders will receive personal text messages as soon as they violate the rules, according to Wang Jun, the company's director of marketing solutions.

Still, getting off to such a troubled start is not good for Apple, and Cue made clear in his talk with the Journal that his company is actively working at fixing its issues.

Republicans talk of sparking economic growth rates in the range of four per cent, but models run by non-partisan forecasters, such as the Wharton business school at the University of Pennsylvania, predict only a modest increase over the shorter term.

Such devices, like the $ 199 Aplio / Phone (from Aplio, in San Mateo, Calif.), eliminate the need for a computer altogether for folks who might balk at talking to their beige desktops all day.

Believers in the technology - is - alienating - us theory are quick to point out the real separation is happening in more intimate settings, such as at home, where families aren't talking much at the dinner table because they're all on their phones.

Given such obstacles, what's striking about democracy at Atlas isn't how far it has progressed — we're talking baby steps here — but how much the concept has already become part of the cultural woodwork.

But with so many interests — and political careers — at stake, the risk that talks could fall through at any point remains a serious risk,» he warned, adding that such a scenario would have an impact of a 1.5 percent contraction on the U.K.'s long - term growth trend.

So was Grant, who explains in the TEDx talk below, how he had to repeat similar experiments at a fundraising call center a half dozen times before he was convinced that such a little thing could make such a big difference.

The only difference is that the Feds have begun to refine their talking points in such a way as not to cause a stir, as happened almost a year ago at a New America Foundation conference on cybersecurity, in which Alex Stamos, Facebook's security chief (then Yahoo's chief information security officer), went toe to toe with the admiral.

Bernstein's Bruno Monteyne and Brandon Fletcher: «There is lots of talk of the «CMA since Tesco / Booker» assuming that something changed in the way the CMA looks at such deals.

Several Thai politicians who attended the Boao Forum for Asia, a kind of China - centered version of the World Economic Forum in Davos, noted that, in recent years, some of the discussions at Boao had shifted from a kind of general talk of globalization and its impact in Asia to more specific conversations about some of the failings of Western economic models exposed by the global economic crisis, and whether China's type of development might be less prone to such risks.

(The alleged «insider» at the company concerned denied giving Porter any such information, and had another person confirm his version of his talk with Porter.)

Click on the link just below to download the PDF of the master deck Shel Horowitz uses to select audience - specific slides for his popular talk, «Impossible is a Dare,» given at such venues as TEDx, Green America's massive Green Festival in New York City, and the Slow Living Summit in Vermont.

And then my son Tamerlan used to tell me that he used to talk to them too, because they called me once and they wanted his number and then at such moments I used to get really worried because, you know, my kids and I'm their mother.»

Trump's Treasury secretary Mnuchin was talking down the dollar in January and such talk puts the entire financial structure at risk, analyst Richard Bove said on Monday, after the Dow Jones industrial average took a record 1,175 - point dive.

From this experience, I can say that sometimes words or talking are not always necessary; just to feel another human touch and not to be alone at such a vulnerable time is all is needed.

But unlike such other popularizers of scientific issues as Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking, he does avoid either talking down to his readers or succumbing to adolescent exclamation points at the mere sight of numbers requiring scientific notation.

Last year, in a talk at a conference on Mormonism and Islam at Utah Valley University, I asked my Mormon listeners why they had not rushed to the defense of Muslims in controversies such as the one that raged over the Park51 project near ground zero.

So to not be able to talk about such embarrassment had been a hindrance for me at the time rather than the time of prayer ministry being a help.

As it is, he really only spends one paragraph talking about this, but Jesus emphasized such outward - focused love during His ministry, and the church at large could benefit from more of a reminder that the Kingdom of God is not just about loving one another, but is also about loving and serving those who live in darkness and fear.

There are a couple of assumptions in that, that either events such as Jesus talking with Satan did not exist or that Jesus was hallucinating at the time, imagining the existence of Satan who wasn't actually there.

There were pictures of women, every tribe, every tongue, on every wall, and so it felt like everyone here in the world was there with us, somehow, and a gigantic canvas on the stairs said: There is no such thing as small change, and the famous red couch at Idelette's was worn out and comfortable, especially with Kelley sprawled on it, twisting her hair unconcernedly when she really got talking about the theology of adoption and Lord, yes, that woman can preach and teach in a living room beside a piano better than some preachers I've seen in thousand - dollar suits on a television show.

But if we dispense with God - talk altogether, we may find that we have not achieved the freedom of maturity at all, but rather lost it by confining our discourse to such limits as no longer allow room for the human spirit to breathe and move.

After the Holocaust any credible God - talk must be able to take account of burning children, and any credible theological ethic has to show it is determined to head off such atrocities at their very beginnings, deep in the habits of hearts and minds and in public policies.

However almost every other verse makes it crystal clear that this chapter is referring to a specific event at a specific time such as 9:94 which talks about how Muhammad is to respond to those who didn't join in on the aforementioned campaign whe he got back etc. etc. etc..

Of the teens who attended worship services, 70 percent rated their congregation as a very good or fairly good place to talk about serious issues, such as family problems, alcohol or troubles at school.

It is refreshing in an age when Richard Rorty and his followers have told us that we can not speak this way to hear a philosopher doing so, but, at the same time, it is hard to know what to make of such talk in the light of Taylor's other claims.

Some people like to pretend to be virtuous and imply misogyny when talking about difficulties men face at such times.

At that point the conferences expect me to say «You feel» and «I see» with such fervent effect that, very shortly, the husband and wife will be talking sense.

When immediacy is assumed to have self - reflection, despair is somewhat modified; there is somewhat more consciousness of the self, and therewith in turn of what despair is, and of the fact that one's condition is despair; there is some sense in it when such a man talks of being in despair: but the despair is essentially that of weakness, a passive experience; its form is, in despair at not wanting to be oneself.

Things like: — there is no such thing as a ghost — people do not rise from the dead — snakes can not talk — seas do not part at the wave of a hand, and on and on...

If you haven't talked about such matters as these for a long time, or ever, it may be difficult or embarrassing at first.

Given that children grow and develop physically and emotionally at different rates, we should be careful how we deal with such personal and intimate issues, recognising that for some children it may well be embarrassing to talk about these things in a mixed class.

We need to talk about such issues at some length.

@sbp: Get an education or at least talk with Scholars, then u wouldn't make such a stupid reply.

Once again, it must be made clear that talk of enrichment is not meant to suggest that God becomes any more «God» than he always has been; what is intended by such language is simply that, because God is supremely related to all occasions, these various occurrences provide material for his fuller expression in relationship with creation and at the same time bring about an enhancement of the divine joy as well as a participation through «suffering» (or sharing as participation) in all that takes place in the world.

Hence in the end it would seem as if that true eternal claim that demands purity of heart, by willing one thing, were done away with, as if it had been withdrawn from government, set away in retirement at such a distance from daily life that there simply could be no talk about it.

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare.

That there may be some who need compulsion, some who, if they were free - footed, would riot in selfish pleasures like unruly beasts, is doubtless true; but a man must prove precisely that he is not of this number by the fact that he knows how to speak with dread and trembling; and out of reverence for the great one is bound to speak, lest it be forgotten for fear of the ill effect, which surely will fail to eventuate when a man talks in such a way that one knows it for the great, knows its terror — and apart from the terror one does not know the great at all.

So when we talk about quality of living, I think we live at such a high standard that it's not worth it.

It must be observed that such theologians usually do not fulfill that implied intention, for they still insist on their loyalty to Jesus, at least, even if their way of being loyal to Him is as various as, say, William Hamilton's talk about Jesus as being «the place where we stand» or Paul van Buren's sense that somehow association with Jesus provides a «contagious freedom».