Sentences with phrase «by some gentlemen of»

The 1964 book, «A History of Pornography» recalls efforts by some gentlemen of All Souls College in 1674 to surreptitiously reprint erotic drawings using the Oxford University Press.

A lesson that teaches students about the costumes and accessories worn by gentlemen of the Restoration period, Instructions are given as to how the accessories are used.

Not exact matches

One gentleman called it a «natural product that works great» for his «very sensitive teeth,» while a lady named Jessica was impressed by «the difference in the whiteness of [her] teeth.»

The Hart Schaffner Marx Burnett Trench Coat would not have looked the least bit out of place when worn by a stylish gentleman strolling down a rainy Chicago street back in the 1940s.

And far from being a vintage or retro garment today, this timeless raincoat still won't look out of place when worn by a contemporary gentleman.

The attitude these giants took toward the law of the land, meanwhile, was typified by Cornelius Vanderbilt's warning to some former partners: «Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me.

So yes, ladies and gentlemen, enjoy this brief relief rally driven by the fact that China is offline for the week and that the persistent source of overnight selling on Chinese «hard / crash landing» concerns has been gone simply due to an extended national holiday.

While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.

In the U.S, there is Uranium Energy Corp. (UEC: NYSE.MKT), UEC, which is run by a gentleman by the name of Amir Adnani, who is among the brightest and most active CEOs in the space.

It's run by a gentleman by the name of Morgan Poliquin.

By the way, 2 of these 3 gentlemen are dead) you have characters like John McAfee of McAfee Antivirus and killing your neighbor in Belize notoriety making YouTube videos of himself snorting coke with hookers and guns whilst CEO of a publicly traded company with big Bitcoin investments.

9th China Business Conference Remarks by THOMAS J. DONOHUEPresident and CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Washington, D.C. May 1, 2018Remarks as prepared for delivery.Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for being here.

I think it had been my ambition throughout much of my life to accumulate a collection of books in the ideal, grandly compendious style of the personal libraries assembled by the most literate of prosperous Victorian gentlemen.

Pu (1640 — 1715) belonged to the ranks of the gentlemen - scholars (shi dafu) who constituted the civil administration of China for centuries, but was apparently too bored by his career ever to prepare for and pass the second level of imperial examinations; instead he devoted his energies to the stories he loved, thus becoming not only a benefactor to future generations, but also a moral exemplar for them to emulate.

The latter is especially important because Boiardo» gentleman of Ferrara» was a beneficiary of the Estensi; and because Ariosto» also dependent on that House's patronage» would explicitly transform Ruggiero (Ariosto's spelling) into the Ferraran Aeneas, and Rodomonte into a new Turnus (which gives Rodomonte the privilege of bringing the epic to its sudden conclusion by dying under Ruggiero's blade).

Blind faith based on the musings of a few elderly gentlemen of the first and second century CE, and promulgated by a few «elite», white male Europeans is no longer acceptable.

Thus, modern inventions have reinforced the democratization of society by obliterating the duality of manual labor and intellectual labor and by making it possible — even necessary for the sake of efficiency — for everyone to engage in the kinds of work reserved in aristocratic societies for gentlemen.

animesh wrote, «Anybody who believes that this universe which is more humongous then can be imagined and would 15 billion years to traverse; was created and is controlled by the gentleman carpenter of Nazareth or heralded by the holy prophet from Arabia is totally f - r - i - gg - in crazy!»

Anybody who believes that this universe which is more humongous then can be imagined and would 15 billion years to traverse; was created and is controlled by the gentleman carpenter of Nazareth or heralded by the holy prophet from Arabia is totally f - r - i - gg - in crazy!

Or this, from a Cambridge lecture by Arthur Quiller - Couch: «Is it possible, gentlemen, that you can have read one, two, thee, or more of the acknowledged masterpieces of English literature without having it borne in on you that they are great because they are alive, and traffic not with cold celestial certainties, but with men's hopes, aspirations, doubts, loves, hates, breakings of the heart; the glory and the vanity of human endeavor, the transcience of beauty, the capricious uncertain lease on which you and I hold life, the dark coast to which we inevitably steer; all that amuses, or vexes, all that gladdens, saddens, maddens us men and women on this brief and mutable traject which yet must be home for a while, the anchorage of our hearts?»

(There is also a possibility that John's financial difficulties were caused by his recusancy, for many Catholic gentlemen of that age often avoided fines by «conveying» their property to friends and relatives.)

Toward the end of the semester the class watched the movie Monsieur Ibrahim, in which an elderly Muslim gentleman in Paris (played by Omar Sharif) befriends a Jewish teenage boy.

Its Christian humanism was borne by the informal consensus of southern Lutheran gentlemen, led by impressive and learned clergy presidents.

Oh and by the way: I think it is amazing that you had the guts to become a part of our quite female food blog community and I hope that you inspire other like - minded gentlemen to join in!

Not only did we get to eat avocados in many inventive ways, thanks to the Chef Gabriel Garcia of Tierra Sur at Herzog Wine Cellars, Chef Joseph Antonishek Industriel and Chefs Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken of The Border Grill, but we also had the privilege of touring a beautiful and prolific avocado grove owned by Jim Lloyd Butler (the gentleman in the middle in the photo below).

In Italian folklore, Puttanesca was served by the ladies of the evening in order to allure their gentlemen friends into their arms.

The Chivas 12 Made for Gentlemen by Patrick Grant limited edition will be available from September at a SRP of $ 35.99.

With no place to turn, these gentlemen were happy to be told by Colonel Ralph Stevenson, Chief of Special Services of the U.S. Air Force, that the Air Force would be glad to send along a team of all - stars.

All Sports Series has a Dynasty ladies and gentleman and they go by the name of Team Dorfman aka Glenbrook Domination.

The reason it happened is that Wenger doesn't like figureheads in the changing room and wants everyone to be gentlemen and play by a elevated idea of conduct of the game that no longer rules (more Queensbury rules today).

Innocent of prizefighting's bad old ways, these gentlemen hope by their example to put an end to the exploiting of boxers.

Arsenal has nothing to lose if Iwobi is allowed to continue play in the Ozil position, he can only get better and with Ozil sending signals, i hope Arsenal do sell him January, i have a strong feeling with all the gossip of manu, real madrid, Barca and others wanting him his just games being played by his agents to get arsenal to give him a better deal, in truth Arsenal would be stupid to give Ozil any raise, this is a gentlemen who no one came in for over the summer.

To hammer the last nail to the coffin: to accommodate your record signing in Lacazett you give him the # 9 shirt which belongs to Perez without even attempting to discuss that with the player himself and see if that would be an ok move... Ultimately why would he go where you want him to go... come to a gentlemen agreement now... by the way newswide report that we have put in a bid of 90m + pound for Lemar... all that for a club with no money and now we are banking everything on the kid.

The Mahatma was known as a Christian gentleman of the first water, a man who honored a promise to his dead mother that he would never never desecrate the Sabbath by attending a game.

1) Body By Solomos — Currently in 1st with 50 points (Last Week: 2)-- Welcome to the top of the Rankings gentleman!

Another man linked with the Coventry hot seat has been Saturday's opposing manager, Paul Tisdale, a gentleman long admired by our team of writers and the subject of speculation himself in the past.

-- Samir Nasri celebrates his goal in the opening game with England by thanking the gentlemen of the French press for their support

I'm really surprised, A Baldheaded Gentleman, that so many women seem turned off by your lack of hair.

This reply is late; but, I too wanted to share with Baldheaded Gentleman, One of my brothers was bald by the age of 30; but, he overcame any sense of this as a drawback and is one of the most confident men / people I know.

Lord Chisholm, one of many British gentlemen to settle in Southern Alberta around the turn of the 20th century, likely had the wooden tower for his windmill built by labourers on his farm near Crossfield, Alberta, in 1893.

While at the Mother Earth News Fair earlier this month, a sweet gentleman named Kevin came by our booth, with a package of clothespins in his hands.

As a matter of fact, by the end of Heggeland's 90 - minute course, offered every park district season once a week for two weeks, nearly all of the children were acting like little ladies and gentlemen by sharing and saying «please» and «Thank you» to one another.

Pettit is certainly able to show that some figures like Harrington, opponent of Hobbes» attack on the «democratical gentlemen» who opposed government by prerogative, have something like Pettit's account of freedom as resting in being free from subjection «to the potentially capricious will or the potentially idiosyncratic judgement of another» [7].

Ladies and Gentlemen, President Akufo Addo began his address by lamenting the spate of lawlessness that has characterised the conduct of thugs loyal to him and the NPP.

Ladies and Gentlemen, what happened on June 4 1979 was a justifiable intervention and an expression of rage against corruption and the rape of the country by some political and military leaders of the time.

The directive, issued on August 30 2017, and signed by the Acting Head of Finance and Administration, Atakora Kodua, said the picture posted on social media, made mockery of the first gentlemen of the land, hence the decision to suspend him indefinitely.

The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), has indefinitely suspended one of its officers in the Ashanti Region, for exercising his rights to free speech, saying he had breached the Civil Service Law — PNDC Law 327 by mocking the first two gentlemen of the land.

The Central Regional Communications officer of the NDC, Mr Kwesi Dawood contributing to a radio discussion, has paid glowing tributes and poured congratulations on behalf of the NDC to Ambassador Thomas Kwesi Quartey for emerging victorious as the new Deputy Chairperson of the AU Commission describing him as an excellent diplomat by all standards, a fine gentleman and that his victory is going down in history as the first and only Ghanaian to occupy an office in the administration branch of the continental body.

The excellent series of pieces by Amelia Gentleman at the Guardian made it perfectly clear what was happening to the Windrush Generation specifically.

When you look at the artwork that David Gentleman did for the Stop the War campaign, which was chaired by Corbyn, or simply the sharply designed logo of his leadership campaign, you can see something of this older visual tradition of public relations in the UK.