Sentences with phrase «call the downing of»

In other words, it is inappropriate to call the downing of a buck by a wolf cruel.

There is usually a point in the Vineyard service where an epicletic prayer goes forth with the words «Come Holy Spirit,» which makes an important connection with the calling down of the Spirit upon the elements in the Catholic Mass or other liturgical settings.

In this case, furthermore, the intended violence of Christians against other Christians and against non-Christians is something whose «results» include the calling down of God's wrath upon the Church, part of which may well include the secularized crucible of what was once a «Christian culture.»

Not exact matches

Netflix's head of programming, Ted Sarandos, did use the call Monday evening to shoot down one frequent rumor about the company, while declining to address another.

Yahoo had about 11,000 employees as of June 30, according to its website, down from a Dec. 31, 2014, total of about 12,500 full - time employees and what it called fixed - term contractors.

Unlike the 18 - storey student residence rising at the University of B.C., or the 25 - storey office tower planned for Vienna, the proposed Terrace House is not entirely wood - framed; developer PortLiving is calling it a «hybrid timber structure» — wood framed on its upper floors, but using more conventional steel and concrete construction methods lower down.

We're now in an era of what I call «distributed trust,» where trust in institutions is down but trust in individuals is up.

As the man attempted to lead her down an even darker block that she'd known to be dangerous, she decided to listen to her intuition this time, calling out for help to a nearby group of people before sprinting away from him and getting home safe.

T - Mobile is doubling down on «do what they tell you» under an effort called «Team of Experts,» which has given call - center employees unprecedented authority.

But both films showed how mundane, and even boring, much of investigative journalism is: your inquiries lead nowhere; doors are slammed in your face; you make endless phone calls; and you have to choke down all that lousy coffee.

Layaway might make sense if you're calling dibs on an item that's in high demand, like an Xbox One S, or if you're plunking down a large amount of cash for a pricey 65 - inch Ultra HD TV.

A similar series of bills were voted down recently in the Senate, a vote that was only called after a long filibuster by Senator Chris Murphy.

After the scandal broke, Young wrote a book called «The Politician: An Insider's Account of John Edwards's Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him Down.»

Questions about where Mr. Low and the prime minister's stepson — a movie producer behind films including «The Wolf of Wall Street» — obtained money for the United States properties have helped fuel political unrest in Malaysia, where several political leaders in the opposition and in Mr. Najib's own party have called for the prime minister to step down.

He was one of the big names on the right that withdrew his support to Francois Fillon and called for him to step down in the light of the Penelopegate scandal.

The fact is, though, that mobile technology tore down the walls between our business lives and our personal lives, prompting the evolution of the so - called «prosumer.»

Icahn owns an 82 % stake in CVR Energy, which along with other refining companies, has called for changes to the Renewable Fuel Program to shift the burden of blending biofuels into gasoline away from refiners and further down stream to marketers.

Two years ago, at the Venture Capital Challenge organized by the famous Silicon Valley VC Draper Fischer Jurveston, the hands - down winner of the $ 250,000 prize was a new sleep - monitoring gizmo called NeuroVigil.

It's my time to listen to NPR and find out how world events might be affecting our travel business, to mediate on the beauty of my drive down the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut, to make a few personal calls, and to reflect on how grateful I am for what waits for me on the bookends of my drive.

And then we have the president using language that really is not becoming of the United States president, calling the press the enemy of the people, to see his term «fake news» used by authoritarians everywhere to justify cracking down on dissent.

Plunging sales two years ago sent Fitbit's shares into a tailspin — they're down more than 70 % from their 2015 initial public offering price — although it has unveiled a well - reviewed watch of its own called Versa.

It's called Bullet Journaling — a form of rapid logging that allows me to boil everything down to focus just on the results I want to achieve, and keep track of what I did when.

Munoz, who took the helm at United in 2015 as part of an effort to improve customer relations, has faced calls to step down after referring to Dao as «disruptive and belligerent» in a statement following the incident.

For example, people seeking mortgages visit LendingTree.com, where they're guided through a series of around 20 prompts calling for such information as credit scores, the loan amount requested, and the proposed percentage down payment.

The Bank of Portugal stepped in with a 4.4 billion euro ($ 5.2 billion) bailout of Banco Espirito Santo in August and split it into two parts - a new, healthy bank called Novo Banco, and a legacy entity that is being wound down.

The richness of the information devolves correspondingly with each alternate step - down method including: video conference, a phone call, an email and a text message.

A CVS deal would be a so - called vertical integration — an acquisition down a company's supply chain rather than «horizontal» — an acquisition of a direct competitor.

Apparently, working out also spurs the release of something called ANP, for instance, which helps damp down panic.

There will always be a market for hard - core gamers who spend every weekend hunkered down playing the likes of Halo, Call of Duty or Skyrim.

While his professors toiled away on floppy drive computers with 20 megabyte hard drives, Elop — who worked for the faculty of engineering as a student — was poking his head through ceiling tiles up and down the halls, getting his hands dirty hooking people up «to this new thing» called a computer network.

CEO Tim Cook, Steve Jobs» down - to - earth successor, couldn't help himself on the earnings call, describing the quarter as «historic» and his company's performance — selling an average of 34,000 iPhones an hour, 24/7 — as «hard to comprehend.»

A stroll down a real street called Memory Lane in London leads you to the London Institute of Psychiatry, where J.A.N. «Nick» Corsellis sliced into the brains of three corpses and found the first evidence of AE.

Last year, Sawyer Sparks, 23, turned down a $ 500,000 offer from Hasbro, maker of Play - Doh, to license his patented gluten - free modeling clay, called Soy - Yer Dough (that's blueberry blue, above).

The leader of the U.K.'s Liberal Democrat party has called on WPP to disclose more about the misconduct probe that apparently brought down CEO Martin Sorrell.

Only days before his ouster, Bannon reaffirmed, in an interview with a left - leaning political journal, his long - held conviction that the U.S. is locked in an «economic war» with China, and boasted of plotting behind the scenes to take down White House rivals who lacked the courage to join his call to arms.

I'm so proud of the people I called; no one turned me down,» Schultz said.

In April 2017, after it was already known that Markle and Prince Harry were dating but about seven months before the announcement of their engagement, Markle shut down The Tig, saying goodbye to what she called an «amazing community of inspiration, support, fun, and frivolity.»

While Bush's business - themed policy proposals will likely offer a mixture of traditionally Republican tax cuts and so - called trickle down economics, he's likely to define his views on how to support the middle class, lift up the lowest wage workers, and close the income gap, which would continue on the themes he started talking about earlier this year.

Trump, speaking after the Hawaii ruling at a rally in Nashville, called his revised executive order a «watered - down version» of his first.

Spam While it's hard to pin down the one person who decided that junk mail should be called spam, internet entrepreneur and author Brad Templeton says that the famous Monty Python viking spam sketch, which made the lunch meat synonymous with unrelenting repetition, was adopted by the users of very early chat rooms in the late 1980s to describe the process of overwhelming a computer with data to crash it.

Shares of the wholesale retailer closed down 6 percent on Friday after its post-earnings conference call, in which analysts pushed a narrative of Amazon overshadowing Costco's future success.

Without any warning or even an after - the - fact public announcement, Instagram locked down its API last Friday, removing access from a number of apps while reducing the limit for API calls for all others to just 200, down from the previous limit of 5000.

Donna Fluss, president of DMG Consulting, says that the best way to keep costs down in a people - heavy organization like a call centre is through effective use of workforce technology software, which can help quickly identify a customer's needs and deliver the call to the right agent.

Because of the unrelenting pressure to process more calls, employees were cutting down on water consumption (and hence, bathroom breaks), and stress and lack of time were leading to unhealthy food choices.

You can also drag a Tag group (what's called a «Stack») from the Finder sidebar down to your Dock (row of icons) for easier access.

But strip Zappos down to the bare bones of its business structure, and the company had been little more than an online retailer employing hundreds of call - center employees (not the most compelling or exciting company story line).

Video calls come with their own set of rules, which boils down to: Remember, everyone in the meeting can see you.

This will save you plenty of headaches and missed calls whenever there is an important issue at hand, and no one is going to turn you down because you're living this particular lifestyle.

Since June 30 of this year, the S&P / TSX Composite Index is down 12.28 %, so if your Canadian stocks are down an average of only 12 %, you could be what Charlie Sheen calls «winning!»

China's first space station, called Tiangong - 1 or «Heavenly Palace,» will soon break up over Earth into a fiery rain of space — and the predictions for when it's coming down are getting more exact.