Sentences with phrase «holiday evening of»

Our friend, seven year old S, led a «Snowball Goodbye Game» at the end of a lovely holiday evening of food and playing.

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The festival, also known as Chinese New Year, can be described as Thanksgiving, Christmas, and even New Year's Eve rolled into one holiday, which marks the beginning of spring and the coming together of families.

Several hotels are offering unique holiday adventures, some of which include gifts, shopping money — and even a visit from Santa.

Brooks also reminds Schultz that Trump once proposed a boycott of the coffee chain when many claimed that its seasonal red cups weren't merry enough for Christmas — even though the holiday cups have never included the words «Merry Christmas» or invoked any religious imagery.

Launching campaigns for new products after the holidays is a great way to take advantage of motivated luxury consumers and welcome new customers to your brand — all (if done correctly) without even having to offer a discount.

According to the data, lonely New Yorkers who are looking for love during the holidays should avoid JFK Airport in favor of LaGuardia or even Newark for a better chance of bumping into eligible travelers.

Canadians aren't alone in this regard: In the U.S., companies such as Motorola and Charles Schwab have experimented with forced holidays, and even the government of Japan — a country with a word, karoshi, to describe sudden death caused by occupational exhaustion — is mulling mandatory time off.

Over the holiday, a house - full of people at various parties and family events were taken by the bot, even though it actually came out in the summer of 2018.

The angst of even more work during the already hectic holiday season steers many business owners away from trying to get featured, but it really shouldn't, because it's much easier than you'd think.

Nostalgia for the 1980s and the 1990s has peaked in recent years, as evidenced elsewhere in the fashion world with a denim comeback not to mention listicle upon listicle on BuzzFeed, reboots of countless nineties sitcoms from Boy Meets World to Full House (or original takes on dated themes like Netflix's Stranger Things), or even the release of the Nintendo NES Classic Edition that immediately became The Gift of the 2016 holiday season.

The holiday season is packed with social events, but if you're an introvert, surrounding yourself with a group of strangers, or even acquaintances, is likely a nerve - racking experience.

Even as Samsung unveiled its phones, tech analysts at Gartner predicted that iPhones will be the «must - have» gadget of the holidays.

That number is even higher for millennial workers: by now, 60 % of them have begun slacking at work in anticipation of holiday festivities.

You'll be using evenings, weekends, and lunch hours — and, most likely, your holidays, sick days, and vacation time — to take care of business.

For the do - it - yourself crowd, YouTube even has videos of simple AR holiday cards you can make for free.

Now is the time where managers and supervisors are encouraged, even bombarded, with suggestions of how to communicate appreciation to employees during the Thanksgiving holiday season.

Even worse: 64 % of employees indicate that holiday - related stress leads them to be distracted at work.

The religious holidays of all ethnic groups were celebrated, and even small local - language newspapers and TV channels were financially supported by the state.

While holiday sales rose 4 % this past Christmas, according to the National Retail Federation, even beating their estimates of 3.6 % growth, online sales surged almost 13 % year over year.

In the wake of a holiday season that was worse than the company expected, Target has decided to cut two of its most ambitious long - term projects before either even got off the ground, according to multiple sources.

«Repatriations did not lead to an increase in domestic investment, employment or R. & D., even for the firms that lobbied for the tax holiday stating these intentions,» concluded the study, which was conducted by a team of three economists that included a former Bush administration official.

Feb 2 U.S. food companies called out rising freight costs as a reason for lower profit margins in the holiday quarter, with more pain seen in 2018 as a dearth of drivers and higher diesel prices make it even more expensive to transport products to stores.

The nice evenings and our trips to Barcelona and Sitges completed the unforgettable adventure of a comfortable environment, delicious food, perfect organization, concentrated work, good conversations and easy - going holiday feeling.

In fact, the National Retail Foundation anticipates Americans will spend upwards of $ 678 billion this year on holiday gifts, and that's not even including money spent on cars, gas and restaurants.

For an extra special holiday gift, the state with the lowest prices in the U.S. saw prices plummet even further, hitting a 2013 low of $ 2.84 a gallon on Dec. 18.

Besides, online spending in the last holiday season surpassed even $ 1 billion figure in a single day, thanks to incredible participation of smartphone in purchases.

However, online sales still represent less than 10 % of Buckle's total revenue, even as the most recent holiday season showed the continuing trend among shoppers to go online.

The wrong approach to holiday credit card spending can actually set you up for years of debt, while the right approach makes it manageable from before you even pull out your card.

These are all peer - nominated awards, and we even do video recordings of some of the nominations that we show at annual holiday party, where we announce the winners.

They are now demanding it be made official that the holiday is strictly about the birth of Christ and even throw a fit if some one says the holiday season instead of evoking the name of Christ.

The magic of the natural chemistry that makes this attraction possible makes millions of dollars at the box office, billions via dating apps as people pursue it and even has its own celebratory holiday in February.

Heck, most of the holiday christian covet so much is pagan in nature and they don't even know it.

Oh the poor persecuted christians that don't even realize a good 90 % of their so called holiday comes from the pagans.

Jarvis had envisioned Mother's Day as «a holy day,» even - in a truly grandiloquent moment - as «a divine gift,» a Sabbath celebration of maternal affection and perseverance, «not as a holiday» at the disposal of various «trade vandals» and «trade pirates.»

The Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ in a manger in Bethlehem 2000 some odd years ago is ubiquitous across the country, even if the American tradition has leaned away from the sacred and toward the secular.

Who would've thought that for a holiday in which even NPR can be mistaken on what Easter really means, Justin Bieber would be leading the culture forward and sharing the true significance of the annual celebration.

On the Sunday holiday, certain kinds of recreation were outlawed, and no violence (which necessarily involves the issue of morality) was supposed to be committed, not even by the criminal.

There are a lot of holiday customs which are also referred to as pagan even though they lack a religious element, or developed entirely from Christian elements.

If it gives the American Atheist Association a sense of pride that they have a billboard up during the holiday season... not for me to judge or even care.

The redemption of the festivals shows that God can redeem holidays and rituals for His own honor and glory, and that even as His people, He still wants us to enjoy life with parties, laughter, and celebrations.

The big, festive holidays (Christmas and Easter) are preceded by times of quiet reflection (Advent and Lent), which I feel makes the holidays even more special.

For example, I know that on Fridays and during Ramadan, every day, there tends to be heavy traffic around mosques, particularly at sunset, and similarly on Jewish holidays around synagogues, and on Saturday afternoons around Catholic churches (because most have a Saturday afternoon service in addition to Sunday services); similarly, I keep a copy of the local pro and college sports team schedules handy, even though I only actively follow one sport.

Even though Lewis stated that his stories were conceived as «holiday fiction» for the amusement of children (perhaps primarily for the amusement of the child in him), again we return to the question «Was there more to his stories than that?»

We do not celebrate Jewish holidays (except maybe in New York City), nor any of the Indian, Chinese, African, or even other Christian holidays (such as the Eastern Orthodox holidays; there are many more religious holidays on the Christian calendar than Christmas and Easter).

BUT I do believe in separation of «church» and state (another founding principal of our country)... so NO religious holiday should result in a day off from school not even CHRISTMAS or PASSOVER etc. if you celebrate the holiday don't send your kid to school and they can catch up later.

Look at other Muslim Countries, they have Churches and I know of some that even give School Holidays during Christan Holidays.

As a jew, none of my holidays were school holidays and even now, many years later, I work at a company where the president and CEO is a conservative jew and we still only get christian holidays off.

People in Ameirca fight against even national holidays: most businesses do not get days off for President's Day, Veteran's Day, or Martin Luther King's birthday, and these holidays pertain to all of America.

this country was built on CHRISTIAN values, the ones asking for muslim holidays let's see first any of the muslim countries give a christian holiday or in some muslim countries even allows one church to be built.

But even if taking «Christ» out of Christmas were possible, greeting someone with the words «Happy Holidays» instead of «Merry Christmas» wouldn't do it.