Sentences with phrase «chance conversation»

The minister should develop the skill of turning pastoral calls and chance conversations into counseling opportunities, formal or informal.

«Boris has dozens of chance conversations with Londoners every week.

«And when they're immersed in that noise and activity, they can benefit from synergy and new ideas that arise from chance conversations from around the room.»

Wrap midweek get - aways around special events and linger through less - busy weekdays to explore Old Town Temecula, experience Pechanga Resort & Casino, and enjoy Temecula Valley wineries» new releases, and chance conversations with winemakers and winery family members.

A chance conversation with Turtle Creek CEO Richard Bailey turned into a job offer to be the new director of food and beverage, and Hamper accepted the challenge.

Celebration guests and attendees especially savor less - busy weekdays to explore Old Town Temecula, experience Pechanga Resort & Casino, and enjoy Temecula Valley wineries» new releases, and chance conversations with winemakers and winery family members.

The best time to visit is weekdays for a quiet, relaxing atmosphere and chance conversations with winemakers and winery owners.

Following a chance conversation on social media, leading carton manufacturer, Qualvis Print & Packaging, has produced distinctive new gift packaging for Oxfordshire - based craft gin micro-distillery, Twisting Spirits.

Sometimes you acquire the most valuable input in the most unexpected situations — in a chance conversation or when walking by a message board — so keep your eyes peeled and your ear to the ground!

Shonagh McVean's essay hammers home the importance of networking — a «chance conversation» with an acquaintance led her away from research and toward a career in patent law.

One such incident was a chance conversation in an aeroplane with a scientist turned businessman from Zimbabwe.

I was well on my way to a life as a researcher when in my last year of my undergraduate program, a chance conversation with a fellow singer changed all of that.

A chance conversation alerted University of Copenhagen researcher Eske Willerslev, who was just back from two unsuccessful months in Greenland searching for human remains to test for DNA, to the sample, which had been stored at the National Museum of Denmark for more than 20 years.

Then a chance conversation with someone from the DigitalGlobe Foundation — the nonprofit arm of a commercial satellite company — changed everything.

The deeds of Oskar Schindler may have gone largely unknown but for a chance conversation between Australian author Thomas Kenneally and a luggage repair shop employee in LA.

Tuesday was a day of mellower pleasures at the Edinburgh Film Festival, from an idle sun - soaked writing break in the park, to a chance conversation with Paddy Considine and Shane Meadows (both as smart and affably bloke - ish as you'd expect) outside the theater, to, most importantly, a trio of quietly impressive, character - oriented foreign - language titles.

Their chance conversation ends with the robber agreeing to use the teacher's guest room, and as their talks continue, it becomes clear that each envies the life of the other.

The bill, Representative Stark said, was inspired by a chance conversation he had on an airplane with Steven P. Jobs, the chairman of Apple Computer.

I stumbled into Brizard's absence during a chance conversation with (a) Chicago educator Thursday.

It was a chance conversation with a fellow law student that introduced her to the idea of shifting her career to urban public education.

My first novel, Love Hurts (A Redcliffe Novel) began to form in my mind when I was a teenager, but it was a chance conversation with my younger sister that sparked my entry into the writing world.

A chance conversation with a taxi driver leads him to join a regular cricket match on Staten Island, and there he encounters Chuck Ramkissoon.

Boomer, a German shepherd / Labrador retriever mix, was discovered at the Parsippany Animal Control and Animal Shelter thanks to a chance conversation between Animal Control Officer Kaitlin Kopshaw and Sheriff's Detective Corporal Mike McMahon.

You want to absorb everything: the minute details, the chance conversations, the unexpected pastries.

Because of a chance conversation I had with Philip Guston's New York dealer David McKee in mid-April, I went to San Francisco in August to see Guston's retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

A chance conversation with a gallery representative and an opportunity to show the sketchbook he was carrying resulted in what has become an enduring creative collaboration; Halcyon Gallery started permanently representing Griffiths in 2004.

Richard Box, artist - in - residence at Bristol University's physics department, got the idea for the installation after a chance conversation with a friend.

Chance conversations have led to the foundation of a new industry group within Herefordshire, bringing small firms in the security and defence sector to offer a greater level of expertise and a new range of collaborative opportunities.

The world is replete with examples of accepted mythology and a chance conversation I had a year or so ago has led me to do a little informal research into what I now am starting to regard as «the Google myth».