Sentences with phrase «gathering point around»

I think culture can be a great gathering point around which one can consider, in a non-conflictual way, the pressing and challenging issues of the day

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Word has gotten around about the monthly fete — mostly through E-mail and various newsgroups — to the point where Clark says the gathering has become a «centerpiece for our particular niche.»

As his guests finish tucking into plates of fried chicken and pasta salad, Jenkins reminds his guests that the point of this gathering is not to sit around throwing rocks at the FAA, an activity that has become an organized sport for advocates of a commercialized drone industry.

The point is that God's salvation plan no longer includes only ONE type of human, i.e. Jew, but ALL types of human — there will be peoples from every tribe and tongue gathered around the throne, not just one.

At one point the cast is gathered around a sumptuous table, lamenting the otherwise heroic Las Casas's unrepentant colonialism.

He even waved at one point to the throng of reporters who were gathered around a set of bleachers next to where Mr. Paterson and all the other officials were awaiting the president.

a store employee shouted at one point as a logjam of smart - phone camera - pointing people gathered around Rice and Schumer.

As a starting point, we used the hypothesis that humans gather resources in a circle around their village and in the proximity of roads.

By now, the BXD community has gathered around 300 million phenotype data points from these animals, generating by far the largest coherent «phenome» (a set of all phenotypes expressed in an organism) for any animal experimental cohort.

Using video footage gathered from various sources and knowing the landing point of the meteor, scientists in Columbia have been able to recreate its path to Earth, including the boom - a-rang effect it had in orbiting around the sun.

The display offers five - point rather than 10 - point touch, which we don't consider a drawback since we can't imagine multiple simultaneous users gathered around the tablet.

When we first pulled up to the Lookout Point parking lot, we noticed a group of people gathered around a telescope, looking out toward a rock in the middle of the canyon.

Paddling up to the point where we were nearly underneath some of the nests, we could make out the chicks calling out to their parents who were busy scrambling around the treeline with bits of food hanging from their mouths, as well as the occasional toddler who was brave enough to walk to the ends of the branch, but wasn't quite ready to make the leap, its wings flapping in the wind to gather strength for their eventual departure.

There are 12 thatched cabanas of varying sleeping configurations and several public gathering spots, including the spacious dining room with a rooftop lookout point, an open - air combined bar and a lounge with a wrap - around view of the lake.

[4] The point derived the name Ballast Point from the fact that the early Yankee skippers would have stones gathered from Ballast Point to serve as ballast in their ships during their returns around Cape Horn to their home town, Bopoint derived the name Ballast Point from the fact that the early Yankee skippers would have stones gathered from Ballast Point to serve as ballast in their ships during their returns around Cape Horn to their home town, BoPoint from the fact that the early Yankee skippers would have stones gathered from Ballast Point to serve as ballast in their ships during their returns around Cape Horn to their home town, BoPoint to serve as ballast in their ships during their returns around Cape Horn to their home town, Boston.

The point derived its name from the fact that the early Yankee skippers would have stones gathered from Ballast Point to serve as ballast in their ships during their returns around Cape Horn to their home town, Bopoint derived its name from the fact that the early Yankee skippers would have stones gathered from Ballast Point to serve as ballast in their ships during their returns around Cape Horn to their home town, BoPoint to serve as ballast in their ships during their returns around Cape Horn to their home town, Boston.

You have to decide whether it's worth maybe moving familiars around to gather different ingredients needed for a level three scheme, or if you should use what you have and perhaps just finish up a quest worth a single point so that you can get to pick out a new one that could be more favorable in the current situation.

While the vessel can not be turned around at any point, it can be steered towards randomly - generated docking - points where the player can disembark to gather supplies.

Magic is gathered from draw points around the world or from enemies in battle.

Final Fantasy XV progress hinges around leveling up, experience points and gathering ascension points over at the Ascension Menu.

When artist Jean - Baptiste Bernadet began to think of an exhibition of painters of his generation gathered around the work of Jean Degottex, whom he knows and appreciates since his formation at the Beaux - Arts, the unique format of the paintings in this series seemed a good starting point.

He first pointed me to the string of videos he created to explain the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network, a crowd - sourced meteorology data base gathering precipitation information from individuals and, particularly, schools around the country.

«Every country on Earth — except for probably, North Korea — is having rallies around this wonky data point, 350 parts per million CO2,» said McKibben in an interview after addressing the San Francisco gathering.

Rather than having a family room centered around a TV, the focal point is a grand stone fireplace added on during the rebuild that extends from floor to ceiling — a labor of love for the family, who gathered some of the rocks from the beach nearby.

I am hoping to re-do the space at some point in the near future, so I have been shopping around and gathering tons of inspiration.