Sentences with phrase «hold a conversation on»

The Times editorial implied that there is something wicked about holding a conversation on faith, since it might lead to conversion.

Also at noon, NYC Councilman Ben Kallos Liz Accles, the executive director of Community Food Advocates and Monique Lindsay, a public school parent leader and food advocate hold conversation on universal free lunch, food access and nutrition for New York City's public school students, NYSHealth's office, 1385 Broadway, 23rd floor, conference room, Manhattan.

You can hold a conversation on the Torque while wearing earplugs, even with someone aiming a hair dryer into your other ear.

Confident women are the walking definition of this — they easily adjust to social settings and can hold conversations on a wide variety of topics due to their knowledge and natural curiosity to learn more.

Secure and solvent with usual male mental health problems, I like to think I am intelligent (can hold a conversation on several topics that do not relate to any sporting activity, although do love sport)... the person your experiencing it with not the experience itself.

If pressed, I can hold a conversation on almost any topic you can imagine.

If not, people walking around chatting to their AR headsets could be even more distracting than having them hold conversations on the phone nearby.

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Yet when a Gizomodo reporter tried to call, instead of a conversation, he got put on hold for half an hour.

If the microaggressor is someone in a position of power, then you may want to think about the impact they can have on your career before you hold a one - on - one conversation with them.

To date, most of the conversation surrounding the TCJA has been focused on the one - time repatriation tax — charging a tax rate on cash and other assets previously held overseas.

This new strategy, based on survey data we collected, increased employee satisfaction by 40 percent and improved two factors specifically: performance related to employee concentration and employees» ability to meet face to face and hold phone conversations.

According to conversation on Twitter, when people tuned in Zuckerberg appeared in the stream, told viewers to hold on, then disappeared and the stream went dead.

Inside Bloomberg wrote: On Nov 14, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg held a conversation with Danny Meyer, CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group and founder of Shake Shack.

Keeping our conversation entered on Asia — this week Scotiabank called off a deal that would sell its Malaysian unit to the Taiwanese financial - services firm Cathay Financial Holding Co Ltd..

Pro - Life / Pro-Choice No matter where you stand on abortion, find someone who holds the opposite view and is willing to have a conversation with you.

According to the Mail on Sunday, Archbishop Justin held the conversation with Meghan Markle before he baptised the 36 - year - old into the Church of England earlier this month.

That's why you can't hold an intelligent conversation with a group of them; because they can't even agree on what their religion is.

It is a commitment to hold together with those who share a similar norm, to carry on mature conversations, to affirm a oneness in the gospel, while working on the issues that currently divide.3 Evangelicals need the collective wisdom of their best minds and spirits working together on the theological task of the church.

A couple of weeks ago, I engaged in an interesting conversation on Twitter with my friend Ben Moberg and several others about Christian leaders who hold their cards close when it comes to their positions on same - sex relationships and LGBT people.

1Although «process hermeneutics» is used here principally in reference to NTIPP and OTIPP, these collections are products of conversations that began with a conference on Biblical theology and process philosophy, held at Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, in 1974, whose papers were published in Encounter 36/4 (1975), PS 4/3 (1974) 159 - 86, and LG 29 - 44.

Some years ago when President Jimmy Carter was traveling in South Korea he held a lengthy conversation with the South Korean president on the subject of religion.

Youth - adult conversations: During the «nurture hour» on Sunday morning, a California church held a series of discussions involving some twenty youth and adults, co-led by a youth and an adult.

#RDUK is a moderated conversation held once a month on Twitter covering various nutrition topics.

I wouldn't go on the radio to talk about it, but I'm okay holding a conversation about the NBA.

We could have avoided this conversation altogether if we had held on to Jake Matthews last year.

In turn, it's now claimed by Don Balon that Mourinho has set his sights on Fabregas and held a «secret conversation» with him, while it's a little more difficult to go along with the theory that he would also see it as a blow to Antonio Conte to prise the midfielder away given their current rivalry.

Hold a conversation with your teen and gain your teen's input by asking questions like, «What do you think is going on here?»

A fairly standard scene in our house is me cooking or 1 / 2 - ass cleaning while holding baby and feeding toddler and checking messages intermittently on the iPhone and attempting a conversation with my husband with 18 interruptions from the toddler.

Holding a space, setting a tone, interacting one - on - one in real and meaningful conversations, and... (best part of all, for me anyway), watching the connections between people that happen when they gather in a space of likeminded individuals.

It can trigger similar conversations about diversity, prejudice, standards of beauty, etc, all of which are important topics for adoptive families to hold on a regular basis.

Incredibly curious about all that's going on around her, and happiest when she is being held and included in conversations.

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On Jan. 25, we held a panel conversation titled, «Future of Football: Reimagining the Game's Pipeline.»

They could move their arms, turn and look up at me, kick, and not have to see an anxious look on my face as I try to make conversation and hold the blanket down at the same time.

So if you're going to be on the phone or you're holding an adult conversation with a friend, catch your child being good.

It can be really easy to relax our hold on civil conversation in the heat of the moment and hard to make up for it afterward.

As the parents of 10 children ranging in age from 4 to 21, Hoffman Estates Village President Michael O'Malley and his wife, Maribeth, usually have to schedule a specific outing just to hold a one - on - one conversation.

Sometimes, if they even pee a tiny bit that they kick it off and like Sunny, I have tons of conversation where, are we going to go potty on the potty or you're going to showcase diaper off, to the very last drop that it can hold their...

If they're resistant, put the conversation on hold and give them time to digest the news.

People on benefits aren't stupid, they do have minds, they're able to hold their own and have a conversation about things that do matter.

Based on numerous conversations around the Capitol the last few days, here is part of the problem: Some of the rank and file members of the Democratic Assembly wanted to hold up the budget in exchange for a better deal on Raise the Age — an issue that is deeply important to them.

Ed Miliband's campaign launch in Salford today contains a bold ambition: a call on his party's supporters to double the number of conversations they hold with voters in the run - up to polling day on May 7th.

The last thing Cuomo needed the conversation to be in 2014, when the gubernatorial election would be held, was anything resembling a new tax — particularly if there was a perception that it would be imposed on everyone in the state to pay for yet another benefit for the people of New York City.

Informal conversations have been held on the state budget, though those talks are yet to heat up, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie told reporters on Wednesday at the Capitol.

On hold for nearly nine months, the trial of two Buffalo police officers accused of using excessive force against four teenagers is moving forward and may reveal for the first time what was said in a secret hallway conversation between the defendants.

The second edition of the «Y - Dialogues Vote on Issues» Campaign held in Kumasi ended with a general consensus by the teeming youth present to generate positive conversations on social media concerning the elections.

Based on not - for - attribution conversations with at least four members of the 2016 class of the Florida Senate, other Senators, and key staff and lobbyists close to Passidomo, Hutson, Galvano, and Simpson, it appears that Passidomo holds a one - or two - vote lead over Hutson within the nine - member class of Republicans.

Mahoney said the plans for the state fair came from conversations she and Cuomo held during his annual visits to the midway: The governor, Mahoney said, remarked on how «the fair hadn't changed at all since he came here with his father,» a perspective she shared.

But in this conversation, held just before the Prime Minister's Commons statement yesterday afternoon, we started with IDS, whose resignation on Friday night had surprised Soames as much as everyone else.

A spokesman for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office on Tuesday denied a conversation with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was ever held to discuss the release of a cover story for the George Washington Bridge lane closure scandal.