Sentences with phrase «by ordinary events»

Considering that the media plays up the worst possible scenarios in everything — you would think that a winter snowstorm was an assault on the existance of all humanity in its path the way some weather forecasters talk about it — the constant inflation of the danger posed by ordinary events, it is no wonder that people are fearful.

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Except in the event of the optionee's death, if the shares are disposed of prior to the expiration of the statutory holding periods (a «Disqualifying Disposition»), generally, the amount by which the fair market value of the shares at the time of exercise exceeds the total exercise price will be ordinary income.
in the event that any dividend and / or other form of capital return or distribution is announced, declared, made or paid by Shire otherwise than in the ordinary course, to reduce any offer by the amount of such dividend and / or other form of capital return or distribution.
About as far from «arbitrary» as an event could be since they were noticed and measured by ordinary, untaught humans for dozens of centuries and led us to further scientific discoveries.
Of course, a special act of God is to some extent an expression of God, but so is every event; the thing that differentiates a special act of God from an ordinary one is not at all due to anything done by God.
Its events belong to the sphere, not of history in the ordinary sense, but of the supra - historical; they can not be objects of historical research because they are discernible only by faith.
In their view, books stressing contingency «offer a way forward, beyond the «old political history» and the new «social and cultural history» by a reunion of process and event,» In other words, what Individual people did — perhaps especially people who filled leading public posts — may be as genuinely significant as the ordinary forces acting upon ordinary people.
Inferences from common events must have quickly entered into consideration, being so intimately a part of ordinary prudence; and with the personalist interpretation of environment, supposed action by that environment would have the same relevance as action by another person.
In an article in Crime Writers, edited by H. R. F. Keating (1978), P. D. James defended Dorothy Sayers against that charge, pointing out that Sayers had begun to include the details of ordinary life in the detective story, placing events in a real world.
My point is that one can begin with the event and then be led by ordinary English language to posit a substantial subject and a substantial object outside the experiential event.
Stephen Crites has this pointed observation about the way in which truth is communicated by ordinary people — including those men and women of the First Century who experienced the Christ event in their own lives:
In this way we enter into the mystery of the Holy Trinity through the ordinary events of our lives, led by the Spirit of truth into the fullness of truth.
Every time a person can see, even if only ironically and ambiguously, the events of his or her social and personal life illuminated by some aspect of the life and death of Jesus, then parabolic understanding is taking place, the ordinary is seen in a new context.
Punctuated by stunning architectural elements including grand chandeliers, lofty windows and broad river - view terraces, our event venues go beyond the ordinary while embracing the unique personality and charm New Orleans is known for.
Lord Tebbit said the week - long conference was a great social event for the ordinary members to rub shoulders with cabinet ministers in the fuggy atmosphere of the conference hotel bars, or the banquets and dinner - dances organised by the seaside.»
Neither Senft nor Connor said they begrudge ordinary Puerto Ricans turning out to celebrate their heritage at the event, although Connor wondered what parade - goers were thinking as Lopez Rivera's float passed by — noting that the vast majority of people from the Caribbean island don't support independence.
«A lot of ordinary people are losing their jobs, losing their houses and have a lower standard of living because of the irresponsible giddy acts of bankers,» he told a fringe event hosted by the centre - right thinktank Policy Exchange.
At one of his public engagements President Mahama noted that events of the last few months had demonstrated more vividly and vindicated the assertion by the founder in 2008 that «Ghana is larger than all of us, and the NDC's victory is the victory of ordinary and truthful Ghanaians guided by the proven history and performance of a Social Democratic Party and Government.»
Because we tend to judge the frequency of events by the availability of recall; extraordinary events appear more prominent and frequent in our mind than ordinary events.
Based on the award - winning book by acclaimed British author and illustrator Raymond Briggs, this hand - drawn, animated film tells the true story of Raymond's own parents — Ethel and Ernest - two ordinary Londoners living through a period of extraordinary events and immense social change.
So says professional killer Jackie Cogan at one point in Killing Them Softly, the third film by New Zealander Andrew Dominik - and considering the filmmaker's efforts to establish a connection between the events in the movie and the economic crisis started in the late 2000s thanks to the greed and lack of scruples of Wall Street, it is easy to see Cogan as an ordinary employee of any company complaining about the lack of vision of his bosses and, on the other hand, the big bankers as Armani - dressing versions of the violent mobsters who inhabit the crime section of the newspapers.
And it fits by the way quite well into Adrian Martin's definition of «great events and ordinary people» in his wonderful essay on Malick's masterpiece The Tree of Life.
An Ordinary Man is both written and directed by American producer / filmmaker Brad Silberling, director of the films Casper, City of Angels, Moonlight Mile, A Series of Unfortunate Events, 10 Items or Less, and Land of the Lost previously.
During this event, an Ordinary White American Divorced Family Man (played by John Cusack) fights to save his family whilst navigating a series «talking» scenes (mostly people crying into telephones) which link one stupendous, special effects - riddled, scientifically - implausible, action sequence after another.
The editor describes an ordinary car / Geelong Sprint — A report on this Australian event by Berni Jacobson / Two 1932 Chevrolet Confederates — Dennis Harrison Found beautifully restored examples / Humber 12 saloon — A very rare model with an Australian built body / Peugeot» the lion in the streets» — Tom Threlfall recounts the early history of Peugeot and tries a 1920 2 - seater / Repairing guages at home — How to do - it - yourself by Peter Wallage / Automobile artist in wood — Paul Shinton visits a model maker with a difference / VSCC driving tests at Enstone Antics on an airfield as described by Tom Threlfall.
Currently Looking For: Fiction that hits the sweet spot between commercial and literary with interesting settings and a strong narrative voice; mystery (particularly cozies and crossover literary — think Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger), literary thriller, and psychological suspense; and memoir by writers who connect the events of their lives to readers through incredible storytelling, as well as a wide variety of prescriptive and narrative nonfiction and gift books.
Technical problems caused by an event that is «out of the ordinary» eg, a hidden manufacturing defect
- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing
It's set seven years after InFamous 2, in a world made nervous by the events chronicled in that game — the outbreak of a significant chunk of the population discovering their superpowers has wrecked part of America, and the Department of Unified Protection has been set up to rein in the superheroes and villains, and safeguard the ordinary folk.
By investigating the ways in which reality can become dissociated from recognizable forms and ordinary knowledge, the exhibition considers the manual labor, or craft, within an artist's practice and its potential to modify, shape, overturn, and radically change an existing object, shape or event (historical or current) in the process.
Some of the photographers» names are famous and their images well - known — Mathew Brady, Irving Penn, Gordon Parks, Bob Lerner, Ernest Withers, Mary Ellen Mark, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sal Lopes, Chuck Close — but a key to this exhibition is all the frames taken by ordinary people that depict ordinary events.
In the ordinary course of events, the sender bears the loss unless there was some express or implied authority to pay by cheque... [Judge Sumner] said: «Millions of cheques are sent every day often to traders where there has been a lengthy history of similar payments.
«I conclude that a witness with special skill, knowledge, training, or experience who has not been engaged by or on behalf of a party to the litigation may give opinion evidence for the truth of its contents without complying with rule 53.03 where: the opinion to be given is based on the witness's observation of or participation in the events at issue; and the witness formed the opinion to be given as part of the ordinary exercise of his or her skill, knowledge, training and experience while observing or participating in such events,» wrote Justice Janet Simmons on behalf of the court.
The event, backed by actress Joanna Lumley and human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger, aims to raise awareness about the proposed # 350m cuts to family and civil law and the impact they will have on ordinary people's lives.
Studies have shown that over 85 % of all «justiciable events» are addressed by ordinary people without legal assistance.
In the event that ATSIC and its regional councils are abolished, the ordinary members of the ILC Board include an Indigenous representative nominated by a relevant Indigenous organisation.
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