Sentences with phrase «by a dinner of»

As one 9 - year - old student diner reported, her breakfast of Frosted Flakes was preceded the night before by a dinner of chicken nuggets.

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Members of the Trump administration walked out of the White House Correspondents» Dinner Saturday night during a performance by standup comic Michelle Wolf, who attacked the administration's relationship to the truth as well as the past behavior of the president, who did not attend the event for the second year in a row.

Rather than trying to make up for a day of eating in excess by doing two hours of cardio, or not eating until dinner because you missed a workout the day before, focus on what you can do the next day to stay on track.

I was reminded of this shift in demand for workers last night, at a dinner hosted by small business accounting software company Xero.

Those worried about the lack of networking opportunities provided by an online curriculum can attend dinners held across Canada, and engage in online student - run groups.

We dropped by a few of the parties this weekend and even managed to sneak into the dinner for a few minutes.

Tal says his unscientific research into the subject — consisting mainly of a recent dinner with over 20 real estate brokers and agents who deal exclusively with foreign buyers — led him to believe the number of «pure» foreign purchasers in the Canadian real - estate market is «probably much smaller than perceived by many.»

Thursday night, as Donald Trump dined with a group of 15 business executives — I'm told by someone who was there the president was relaxed among fellow businesspeople and in listening mode — Fortune also hosted a dinner.

The rest of the afternoon flies by and before I know it, it's time to check out the evening commute report, dinner options in my neighborhood, and my outfit for tonight's date, which was put together by WhatToWear (at some point all these companies stopped coming up with clever names and just called themselves by descriptions; less confusing for me).

The other night, I had the pleasure of having dinner with Vivek Kundra, a big name in technology circles by virtue of his being the first ever Federal Chief Information Officer of the United States.

Canada's foremost purveyor of frozen meals, McCain Foods, has been making dinner quick and easy since 1957, when the company was founded by the McCain family in New Brunswick.

The first lady settled on a state dinner menu of rack of lamb and nectarine tart, along with after - dinner entertainment provided by the Washington National Opera for about 150 guests.

«When I was 22 years old, a guy who owned a little bodega in my neighborhood told me, «If you really want to start a company, you better dig under your couch for a couple of extra dollars, stop going out to dinner four times a month, trade in your car for a cheaper one, and raise that $ 40,000 or $ 30,000, if you can, by yourself.»»

The night after they obtained a guilty verdict against one defendant, in 2011, prosecutors and their staff spent a total of $ 763.80 for dinner at a country club (divided by the 18 individuals present, that comes out to $ 42.39 each).

For the food tech startup Dinner Lab, however, having a whole clan of investors does exactly the opposite: It keeps the creative control of the company consolidated, untouched and unfettered by the otherwise omnipotent hand that comes with a big check from a VC deal.

«The assortment of people who have been inspired by this place would make for an amazing dinner party: Mendelssohn, Pink Floyd, Queen Victoria, Keats.

In contrast, the first visit by a foreign leader at his Mar - a-Lago estate was a friendly weekend of meetings, dinners and golf that suggested the new president was willing to invest time in developing close personal relationships with leaders he feels he can work with.

Such an atmosphere can be fostered at a team dinner or an event attended by members for the purpose of collaborating and bonding more deeply.

Beyond those investments, however, the duo grew Estately by grabbing as much free stuff as possible, including mooching server hosting from another startup, using online tools such as Google Apps and Google Voice, taking free lunches and dinners whenever possible and working out of Cole's basement apartment where Ward took over Cole's wife's desk while she was off getting her PhD.

By the time my dinner was finished, I was able to stick around to have that surreal experience of walking through the castle to an empty park.

Food portions have expanded, too; a study by Van Ittersum found even the average size of a dinner plate has increased by 23 % since 1900.

We met at a dinner hosted by Dr. Jim Yong Kim, the president of the World Bank, who most definitely is out to change the world, by ending extreme poverty by 2030.

For the cookout's tenth year, the Ritz Carlton — the presenter of this year's festival — has planned extravagant lunches, dinners, diving excursions, tastings, and demonstrations by chefs like Anthony Bourdain, Emeril Lagasse, and more.

Trump and Xi hit it off at their first meeting in April at Trump's Mar - a-Lago resort in Florida and continued their «bromance» on Wednesday with an afternoon of sightseeing together with their wives, followed by dinner.

Many of the women at the dinner already are helping to reshape the corporate landscape by serving as mentors in the Fortune / U.

Comments uttered by Uber's senior vice president of business, Emil Michael, at a private dinner held by the company last week have created quite a stir.

For those who don't often discuss characterization and story world over dinner, Weinschenk's post kicks off with a great primer on storytelling theory, explaining the basics of Campbell's thinking (famously exemplified by the journey of Star Wars» Luke Skywalker), as well as the roughly bell - shaped story diagram every writer learns in her first class on structure.

This year, CBS added five new board members, which a source said were largely chosen by Sumner, including producer Leonard Goldberg, a frequent dinner companion of Sumner's.

I first noticed the question a couple of years ago, at a dinner convened by a prominent Silicon Valley VC firm.

Because, you see, Loblaws — arguably one of most skilful retailers Canada has ever produced — has announced that they think maybe the way to improve the drug store experience is by making dinner for us.

I stopped by a dinner the Uber team held at Prime One Twelve, an expensive South Beach restaurant, and the waiter had the charisma and smile of a talk - show host.

If its design sounds familiar, it might be because the bottle has made a few TV appearances most notably in season 3 of House of Cards when a bottle was gifted by Russian President Victor Petrov to President Frank Underwood at a state dinner.

When a dinner was held for President Barack Obama by some of the tech sector's most notable leaders, Hastings was there, alongside Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, and Mark Zuckerberg.

And while Mr. Gorman may be Australian by birth, he is hardly Crocodile Dundee, and definitely not the type to go in for the jocular atmosphere of steakhouse dinners and junkets favored by stockbrokers.

In 2008, the Haskayne School of Business created a scholarship for future business leaders out of the revenue generated by the Distinguished Business Leader Award dinner.

Tal says his unscientific research into the subject — consisting mainly of a recent dinner with over 20 real estate brokers and agents who deal exclusively with foreign buyers — led him to believe the number of «pure» foreign purchasers in the Canadian real estate market is «probably much smaller than perceived by many.»

The following month, at an ostensibly off - the - record dinner with media power brokers, an Uber business - development lead suggested that Uber should fight back against bad press by investigating the personal lives of those who criticized the company.

This weekend, over 100,000 new Coinbase accounts were opened, presumably by people who had an overzealous nephew at their Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday, telling tales of unbridled riches and the wholesale changing of the world that is most assuredly imminent thanks to crypto currency.

By late May, Simmons was sitting with Lombardo and HBO chief executive Richard Plepler for dinner on the rooftop at the Peninsula hotel in Beverly Hills agreeing on the shape of his deal.

«Loblaw is likely to focus on capturing consumer spend throughout the day by providing a broader range of breakfast and lunchtime options, along with meal solutions for dinner,» the article said.

Three nights a week, one of Tracy's co-workers from the Fairfield County Board of Developmental Disabilities stops by with dinner for the family.

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On HubSpot's marketing team, for example, we identify a marketing «champion» every month, who gets to attend a Champions Dinner hosted by one of HubSpot's executives and attended by other «champions» from other departments.

Dinner was to be served, according to the agenda circulated in advance of the meeting of the Senior Advisory Committee, which is chaired by deputy minister of Finance and includes the heads of the Bank of Canada, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, the Canada Deposit Insurance Corp., and the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada.

Other events held in combination with the Conference and also organized by Bob Miles have included value investor author book signings, mini-movie premieres, the Annual Omaha Value Dinner, Genius of Warren Buffett Course and Annual Summt Series.

7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. Networking Breakfast in Hotel Courtyard 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Tom Russo, Patner, Gardner, Russo & Gardner [USA] Topic: «Be Right Once» 9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Justin Fuller, CFA, Stock Analyst, Morningstar [USA] Topic: «Morningstar's Ultimate Stock Picker's Portfolio» 10:15 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. Megh Manseta, Investor, Manseta Family Office [India] Topic: «Buffett Munger Principles in Emerging Markets: An Indian Perspective» 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Charles Mizrahi, Managing Partner, CGM Partners Fund LP, Author, Getting Started in Value Investing & Editor, Hidden Value Alert [USA] Topic: «How To Lose $ 1 Million By Investing In Stocks» 12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. Networking Lunch - Executive Deli Sandwiches in Hotel Courtyard (sponsored by Morningstar) 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Piet Viljoen, Portfolio Manager, RE-CM [South Africa] Topic: «Compounding: Your Only Friend in the Investing World» 2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Sees Chocolate Break 2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Todd Green, Portfolio Manager, First Manhattan [USA] Topic: «Reflections on 25 Years of Investing» 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Al Ueltschi, Founder & Chairman, FlightSafety, Warren Buffett CEO Topic: «Building a Business Warren Buffett Would Buy: The Story of FlightSafety» [watch video interview] 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Optional Tour: Shuttle bus from Ayres Hotel LAX to FlightSafety Training Center ($ 45 shuttle and BBQ buffet dinner fee per person) 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Buffet Dinner and Tour of FlightSafety 9:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Shuttle bus from FlightSafety to Ayres Hotel LBy Investing In Stocks» 12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. Networking Lunch - Executive Deli Sandwiches in Hotel Courtyard (sponsored by Morningstar) 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Piet Viljoen, Portfolio Manager, RE-CM [South Africa] Topic: «Compounding: Your Only Friend in the Investing World» 2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Sees Chocolate Break 2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Todd Green, Portfolio Manager, First Manhattan [USA] Topic: «Reflections on 25 Years of Investing» 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Al Ueltschi, Founder & Chairman, FlightSafety, Warren Buffett CEO Topic: «Building a Business Warren Buffett Would Buy: The Story of FlightSafety» [watch video interview] 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Optional Tour: Shuttle bus from Ayres Hotel LAX to FlightSafety Training Center ($ 45 shuttle and BBQ buffet dinner fee per person) 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Buffet Dinner and Tour of FlightSafety 9:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Shuttle bus from FlightSafety to Ayres Hotel Lby Morningstar) 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Piet Viljoen, Portfolio Manager, RE-CM [South Africa] Topic: «Compounding: Your Only Friend in the Investing World» 2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Sees Chocolate Break 2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Todd Green, Portfolio Manager, First Manhattan [USA] Topic: «Reflections on 25 Years of Investing» 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Al Ueltschi, Founder & Chairman, FlightSafety, Warren Buffett CEO Topic: «Building a Business Warren Buffett Would Buy: The Story of FlightSafety» [watch video interview] 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Optional Tour: Shuttle bus from Ayres Hotel LAX to FlightSafety Training Center ($ 45 shuttle and BBQ buffet dinner fee per person) 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Buffet Dinner and Tour of FlightSafety 9:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Shuttle bus from FlightSafety to Ayres Hotdinner fee per person) 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Buffet Dinner and Tour of FlightSafety 9:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Shuttle bus from FlightSafety to Ayres HotDinner and Tour of FlightSafety 9:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Shuttle bus from FlightSafety to Ayres Hotel LAX

6:15 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. CFA Society of Nebraska / Value Investor Conference Dinner 2012 Reception Sponsored by Morningstar Note Location Change: Omaha Marriott (10220 Regency Circle)

5:10 p.m. — 6:00 p.m. Robert Hagstrom Author, CFA, Portfolio Manager, Legg Mason Topic: «Investing: The Last Liberal Art» 6:15 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. CFA Society of Nebraska / Value Investor Conference Dinner 2012 Reception Sponsored by Morningstar Note Location Change: Omaha Marriott (10220 Regency Circle) Separate Registration Required Keynote Speaker: Tom Russo Topic: «Global Value Investing»

RELIGION is a practice of something, not necessarily something spiritual; for example, one can brush their teeth in a religious way by brushing them before school and after dinner everyday.

But what did Philip Larkin know about $ 1,000 - per - person dinners and giant plasma screens and light shows and entertainment by the likes of Aaron Neville and, as the Post notes, an open bar?