Sentences with phrase «do at the convention»

How is it done at conventions?

If a publisher says that they're the only ones who can sell their product starting today, but any other retailer won't have any stock until November, then is the release date today, or are they just making pre-sales (as comic publishers sometimes do at conventions) against a release date in November?

When asked about giving books away to grab new readers, they said it was great when your publisher did it at a convention, but anyone doing it on their own was simply declaring that their book was worthless.

The first thing I did at the convention was meet the voice actor behind my favorite video game character.

Not exact matches

Thiel's substantial donation to Trump doesn't come as a surprise — he did have a prime - time speaking slot at this summer's Republican National Convention — but the billionaire has been largely silent about his chosen candidate's many controversial statements of the past few months, which had caused some to wonder if he had abandoned his support for the Republican nominee.

In the same way that brand standards dictate a color palette to a designer, or coding standards dictate naming conventions to an engineer, management standards take guesswork out of the equation, informing every manager at the organization what to do, and when.

His convention speech emphasized populist, nativist themes, as did his inaugural address — not the high - road, unifying rhetoric that Americans expect at such national moments.

Though the grind appears to take place from 10 am to 4 pm, while the convention floor is open, the real work is done at night.

While Trump does reference some of her own experiences, including her efforts to prepare a speech at the Republican National Convention, the book often lapses into generic platitudes of female empowerment that could have been written by anyone.

It's hard to tell how many do this — I know of a few politically engaged Liberals who periodically hold Tory membership cards too — but it's a fact of life for those of other political stripes in a one - party province like Alberta: the political direction of the province is decided at the PC leadership conventions, not in general elections.

Even during the first two days at the Great American Trucking Show, as it moved around the convention floor, posing for pictures, occasionally breaking out in dance and leaving a trail of happy faces behind it, it did so anonymously.

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Should Rudy Giuliani end up doing a victory dance at the Republican convention, it will be on their graves.

Other communions in America, notably the Disciples and Congregationalists, took similar action in their general conventions at the same time, as did the Eastern Orthodox in their general synod in Constantinople.

The Lausanne conference had two main roots — one in the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh in the spring of 1910, which revealed how widely on the foreign missionary fields the spirit of federation and unity was operating, and the other in the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the fall of 1910, which called for a commission on a world conference on Faith and Order, having to do with the whole church, at home and abroad.

After all, did we have prayers at the presidential conventions?

In an article entitled «Starbucks Does Not Equal Savvy,» Gerson compares Palin's small - town values and religiously - charged rhetoric to that of Bryan, claiming that «the closest I have ever come to witnessing a Bryan moment was Sarah Palin's speech at the Republican convention — the triumph of another backwoods, highly - religious populist.

though it did not succeed at the national LCA convention.

If they truly believed in it, you'd never see anything like opening prayers at the GOP convention (I assume the Democrats will do the same, so this isn't a knock against the right specifically), and you wouldn't have presidents and candidates kowtowing to «evangelical leaders» all the time, which to me is no different than a president or candidate consulting with the Pope, the only difference being the evangelical leaders are Americans.

Essentially, this is a set of sexual Geneva conventions: You never knew it, but not only do you have the right to minimal standards of treatment if you ever become a prisoner of war, but when you were five, you had the right to learn at school all kinds of things about what some people like to do in bed, and if your parents thought that really they'd rather you didn't hear about that stuff at school, or at least not yet, they were... well, they were violating your rights.

Religion is playing a role because they want to do a prayer at the end and the beginning.I highly doubt # 1, # 4, # 7 will even be talked about at the convention.

The Republicans can do what they want as far as including prayer at the convention.

The religious are relentless in their pursuit to force everyone to conform to their way of thinking that I personally think it's about time Atheists at least got organized to the point of offering a place to share ideas... but that doesn't translate into having conventions or holding Atheist sermons so to speak.

«This has nothing to do with religion but with the fact that Romney is only recently pro-life and only recently able to articulate an argument against same - sex marriage,» said Richard Land, the public policy chief at the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest evangelical denomination.

At the inaugural Women's Convention in Detroit in October, put on by the Women's March organizers, Herndon - De La Rosa, of New Wave Feminists, asked «if there was room in their campaign for women who might regret their abortions, say if it was done out of coercion, or if that counted as reinforcing stigma.»

The other treaty, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), has been ratified by every country on earth except for the United States and Somalia (which does not imply that the treaty is good; to the contrary, it is at least as bad as CEDAW).

«If a guy has a hard day at work or is at a convention and wants to sit down in his hotel room and puts on an adult film and plays spank the monkey, why can't he do that?»

This year's PACK EXPO, which is making its biennial pit stop in Las Vegas at the Las Vegas Convention Center from September 25 - 27, is poised to deliver on that experience in ways that it has never done before.

Don't Miss the Student Mentoring and Culinary Forum at the 2007 ACF National Convention

Other BR Guest locations include Strip House at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino; Dos Caminos at B Ocean Hotel in Fort Lauderdale; Bill's Bar & Burger at the Westin Convention Center in Pittsburgh; and Dos Caminos, Bill's Bar & Burger, and Sammy D's at Harrah's Resort Atlantic City.

Health Warrior, a food and movement brand that delivers nutrient - dense superfoods in convenient forms to power everything you do, will exhibit its newest Chia Bar and Superfood Protein Bar flavors at Natural Products Expo East at the Baltimore Convention Center.

After two years of playing in the junior college ranks, he did not have a single Division I offer until his junior college coach showed his highlight tape to the SMU coaching staff at an off - season convention.

I volunteered at the Soccerex Global Convention, which is a massive three - day football convention around numerous aspects of football, from what we see as fans to what we Convention, which is a massive three - day football convention around numerous aspects of football, from what we see as fans to what we convention around numerous aspects of football, from what we see as fans to what we don't see.

If it conforms to just about all the conventions of its young but growing genre, at least it does so with restraint, humor and compassion.

Speaking at the Soccerex sports business convention on Wednesday Tebas said the two Middle East - backed clubs had spent money from outside football to fund their trophy hunting and that something had to be done to stop it.

So my husband and I do all kinds of things separately, so I went to a convention in another city in June, went out to a piano bar that I know in that city, and met a really nice guy at the bar, who started coming onto me right away.

Now, the idea of pumping in a public restroom at a crowded convention center is actually pretty disgusting, but that has nothing to do with the bathroom being for people of all genders.

Since when does an international convention at the Chicago Hilton feature such favors as 60,000 disposable diapers?

The group had its annual convention at the Arlington Hilton, and Mayor Arlene Mulder was asked to do the ribbon - cutting honors.

Sean ended up going to the homeschool convention in Arkansas without me, and I stayed at home getting some organizing done and enjoying sharing my birthday with our oldest daughter.

JOHNER RIEHL: I know that Cristina one of her co-workers, when they got married he actually took the wife's name and that became their family name like it's the obviously our convention here is to take the husband's surname, doesn't always happen, but so there are ways also and you have that moment of that magical moment in the hospital where I guess I don't know how it's done on a home birth like but I know at the hospital they bring you the form, there's the woman who works at the hospital or the man that works on the hospital that brings it to you and you have so much power in that moment like.

Even the hardest - working, highest - achieving kid must adhere to basic social conventions like not showing up for graduation ceremonies looking like a complete shlub — and if your kid doesn't realize that yet, it's time someone taught him about how to present himself appropriately, and the significance of donning a tie (or at least a nice shirt) for important occasions.»

The said vehicle, which was placed in the vehicle pool at the Presidency as per established convention had nothing to do with the award of the contracts.

«It may be challengeable under the Convention, but I don't think we have any evidence at all that such a challenge would be successful,» she said.

Teachout, as you'll recall, failed to receive sufficient support at the WFP's May 31 convention to get onto the ballot, but she did get 41.3 percent of the weighted convention vote to Cuomo's 58.7 percent.

Paladino also did not receive sufficient support at the convention to get onto the ballot, but petitioned his way on instead.

He could try to petition his way onto the ballot — that worked for former Rep. Joe DioGuardi, who didn't get onto the ballot at the convention and then managed to win a there - way GOP primary.

At this point, it looks highly unlikely that there will be a «no confidence» vote forced on Cox from the convention floor, with Lazio supporters reasoning that to do so would step on the message of their candidate and only serve to feed the whole «GOP - in - chaos» storyline.

The issue of potential rules changes to help Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy get on the ballot at the state GOP convention next month reportedly did not come up at last week's Ft. Orange Club meeting, but the topic of the order in which candidates will be nominated was broached.

After his Maffei rally, which starts at 1:30 p.m., Clinton will head to the Rochester Riverside Convention Center where he will do a two - for - one event for Reps. Kathy Hochul and Louise Slaughter, both of whom are fighting for their political lives this fall.