Sentences with phrase «held to celebrate»

Although the modern Mother's Day was invented and trademarked in the early 20th century in the USA, celebrations of mothers and motherhood throughout the world have their roots in ancient festivals held to celebrate goddesses, fertility and the changing seasons.

The Venice Biennale was inaugurated by the City Council in April of 1893, proposing a «biennial national artistic exhibition» be held to celebrate the anniversary of King Umberto and Margherita of Savoy.

The event was held to celebrate Craig - Martin's new book, On Being An Artist (published April 2015).

These were the works that marked the final years of his life and the exhibition was held to celebrate his life as well as his return to figure painting in 1950, which was instrumental in starting the Movement.

Curator Elizabeth Carpenter related this anecdote, which was Rauschenberg's response when Carpenter asked him to dance at the dinner held to celebrate the opening of his Guggenheim Museum retrospective in 1997.

VernissageTV attended the public party on December 2nd that was held to celebrate the completion of Phase I of Wynwood Walls, and the opening of the Assume Vivid Astro Focus wallpaper labyrinth.

Designed by Gustave Eiffel, a trained engineer who owned a company which specialised in metal structural work, the tower was built for the 1889 Universal Exposition — held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution.

During the months of January / February, a special event called The Festival of Migratory Birds is held to celebrate the abundance of wildlife and species of birds in Riviera Nayarit.

Denpasar Municipality Ogoh - ogoh Competition that was held to celebrate Nyepi holiday as well as Caka New Year was over and the announcement of the winner was held yesterday 3/19/2008.

Tomorrow is the big day: a special event will be held to celebrate Metal Gear's 25th Anniversary, and according to Kojima Productions we can expect some big things.

The luncheon was held to celebrate the Tribeca Women's Filmmaker Program.

Konami announced that February 13th an event called «Metal Gear Rising Revengeance World Tour 2013 Launch Party» will be held to celebrate the upcoming release of the game.

Sony revealed this in a livestream held to celebrate the launch of the game today that...

;) The event, which was held to celebrate the launch of K - J's newly released Vinter's Reserve Pinot Gris, was beautiful.

A documentary about the Snow Leopard Trust's community - managed livestock insurance program was selected as the best film about «People & Big Cats» at the International Big Cats Film Festival, held to celebrate World Wildlife Day.

Syracuse.com published an article early Wednesday afternoon saying taxpayers were paying for the cocktail party held to celebrate Central New York's winning bid for $ 500 million in development aid from the state.

The event is being held to celebrate George Pataki's birthday (he's turning 66 on June 24).

Also at 11 a.m., a ceremony his held to celebrate CualaNYC — NYC's first annual festival of Irish culture, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

In addition to 34 international men's matches, and 20 collegiate matches, an international cultural festival, along with an Island concert series will be held to celebrate the weekend.

A lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual support group will march under a banner at the event held to celebrate the patron saint of Ireland.

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Hold a conference or just throw a party to celebrate reaching a milestone.

The studio officially opened last year, but just recently held an event to celebrate the fact that staff will soon be moving into newly renovated digs.

The two sides agreed to hold «reunion programmes» on Aug. 15, the day both Koreas celebrate their independence from Japanese colonisation.

A key part of the process is ensuring potential hires hold its values, which are celebrated and analyzed on an annual Values Day when McKinsey takes a hiatus from client work to study itself: well - handled situations, ambiguous calls, how to ensure adherence to its principles in the future.

An autonomous shuttle bus collided with a semi-truck just a few hours after Las Vegas city officials held a ceremony to celebrate its first day as part of a larger city - wide test.

Last year the privately held company, which is celebrating its 35th anniversary, gave away close to $ 30 million to about 600 organizations after generating more than $ 600 million in retail brand sales.

CMIT Solutions» franchise partners and home office leadership came together to celebrate and honor the success of the brand in 2016 at its annual convention and awards ceremony, held May 2nd - 5th in -LSB-...]

CMIT Solutions» franchise partners and Home Office leadership came together to celebrate and honor the success of the brand in 2014 at its annual convention and awards ceremony, held April 14th - 16th in Park City, Utah.

CMIT Solutions» franchise partners and Home Office leadership came together to celebrate and honor the success of the brand in 2014 at its annual convention and awards ceremony, held April 14th - 16th in -LSB-...]

Second, financial logic embodied in the celebrated Modigliani Miller theorem and suggested by common sense holds that substantial reductions in leverage, if achieved, should be associated with reduced volatility, reduced sensitivity to shocks and lower risk premiums.

To celebrate, Johnsonville and McDonald's are holding a kick - off event at the Ronald McDonald House on Watertown Plank Road at 6:00 p.m. Monday.

This new initiative was announced by Ms Low Yen Ling, Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Ministry of Trade and Industry and Ministry of Education, at the 2018 World Intellectual Property Day Event held in April which saw more than 200 participants from the creative and innovation community gather to celebrate World IP Day alongside 191 member states across the world.

Next month, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer will celebrate the first anniversary of his successful bid to succeed Stephen Harper in the probable knowledge that some of his former rivals — as well as other ambitious Conservatives — are holding a bit of a deathwatch on his leadership.

The teams all got to relax and celebrate over drinks, hors d'oeuvres and a build - your - own poutine bar in the Steam Whistle venue before a night of dancing at the after party, which was held at Bloke & 4th.

When an acquirer agrees with our assessment and offers a premium price for our holding, first we celebrate and then we get to the task of understanding how the acquisition price adds to our understanding of true business value in that industry.

You can apply that same principle to many other factions if you never celebrated Christmas or Santa, the ideas hold true.

Against those who hold humanity in contempt, I, too, want to declare myself a humanist and join in the most elevated and elevating tradition of a culture that celebrates man as «the crown of creation.»

Gon na hold a party to celebrate another prophesy that proved to be hot air.

«I found myself convinced of the position the church has held with almost totally unanimity throughout the ages, that although many people find themselves, through no fault of their own, to have sexual desires for members of their own sex, this is not something to be affirmed and celebrated, but is a sign that we're broken, in need of redemption and recreation,» Hill told students.

It did not require each person to proclaim a reading, hold up a banner or do a dance; active participation in the divine work celebrated at the altar meant something deeper for St Paul, as indeed for the Fathers of the first five centuries of the life of the Church.

But for now, lest it appear to some readers that we are in dialogue with a phantom scientific ideal rather than with one that is seriously held, let us recall the famous statement of F.H.C. Crick, the celebrated Nobel - prize winning molecular biologist and author of the book, Of Molecules and Men:

«Following a request for information, the Catholic Bishops» Conference of England and Wales submitted a dubium (a query) to the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, which confirmed that in the Roman Rite, whichever Form of the liturgy is being celebrated, the Holydays of Obligation are held in common.

It would seem to be preferable to say that: while the crowd clamors and shouts and triumphs and celebrates; while one individual after another hastens to the place of tumult, where it is good to be if one is in search of oblivion and indulgence from that which is eternal; while at the same time the crowd shouts mockingly at God, «Yes, now see whether you can get hold of us»; yet since it is difficult in the rush of the crowd to distinguish the individual, difficult to see the single tree when one is looking at the wood, the sober countenance of eternity quietly waits.

This just goes to show that, though conventional wisdom holds that women are finding a voice online, it can still be a struggle to have those voices acknowledged and celebrated in the Church.

The vote will be held just months before Pope Francis is due to visit Dublin where he will stage the 2018 World Meeting of Families, a gathering which celebrates marriage and family life.

Catholic News Service: Vatican Secret Archives marks 400th anniversary with Rome exhibit Working with the city of Rome, the Vatican Secret Archives is celebrating its 400th anniversary with an exhibit designed to shed light not only on its holdings, but on some of the myth and mystery surrounding its collection of millions of documents.

We have lost the ability to celebrate, to hold festival, to be playful in the most profound sense.

Count them, the golden days of greatest joy holding the hope of children yet unborn and, knowing there will be days enough to mourn the loss life brings, now celebrate the boy

Whatever the process of mutual enrichment between the Extraordinary and Ordinary Forms of Mass (as desired by Pope Benedict) will hold for the future, the present position of young Catholics is that they are going to keep or lose the faith through what they experience in the Mass celebrated at their parish and at their school.

... When the Christians assembled in their Temple at Jerusalem to celebrate Easter, the chaplains of the Church, making use of a pious fraud, greased the chain of iron that held the lamp over the Tomb with oil of balsam; and... when the Arab officer sealed up the door which led to the Tomb, they applied a match, and the fire descended immediately to the wick of the lamp and lighted it.