Sentences with phrase «long first day»

We were shown much hospitality and quickly fell asleep after what had been a very long first day.

It was a long first day on the case for the professor, whose eyes burned as he left the warehouse on Sept. 20.

I know I have to get up to face a very large free breakfast and a long first day at my conference.

Not exact matches

Hungary's Katinka Hosszu ended her long wait for Olympic victory and Australia captured two gold medals in an exhilarating first day of swimming competition that saw three world records smashed in Rio on Saturday.

Twitter is an anomaly whose value has been somewhat manipulated by investment bankers, a frothy stock market that's favoring social media stocks and a sort of desperate investor longing for a return to the good old days of the first dotcom boom.

Long gone are the days when a company like Apple Computer Inc. could get venture capital only after showing a profit (and, even then, received a first round of a mere $ 250,000).

Shares in Japan's Nintendo soared again on Monday, bringing market - value gains to $ 7.5 billion in just two days as investors cheered the runaway success of Pokemon GO — its first long - awaited venture in mobile gaming.

Star Wars fans have longed for the day their beloved universe would fall into the hands of a new master, freed from the dark overload who tricked them into loving him before showing his Special Edition, Greedo - shooting - first true face.

The accident occurred on the first day of the Arma shuttle's 12 - month long test in downtown Las Vegas over a half - mile route near the city's strip.

For example, maybe use the first 30 minutes of your day to answer emails you didn't get to the day before and the last half hour to set long - term strategic goals and specific objectives for the next day.

May Day, celebrated on the first day of May every year, has long been a symbolic day for workers» rights around the worDay, celebrated on the first day of May every year, has long been a symbolic day for workers» rights around the worday of May every year, has long been a symbolic day for workers» rights around the worday for workers» rights around the world.

Before opting for a store - offered plan, Consumer Reports recommends researching the manufacturer's warranty first, which usually covers purchases for the first 90 days if not longer.

By setting up first - rate plans, you'll go a long way toward ensuring management continuity — especially during the precarious early days of management succession.

Two days after becoming the first American to win back - to - back judo gold medals, she tried to sate a long - denied craving for a Big Mac and McFlurry.

As TechCrunch launches our first day - long event in Tel Aviv, there could be no better person to help us discuss the Israeli technology scene than Yossi Matias.

The stock turned higher in July, hitting the 200 - day EMA in October and breaking out shortly after, marking the first time in the stock's public history it closed above this long - term barrier.

After a period of market advance and retreat between 1979 and 1982, August 13 of the latter year «marked the first day of what would turn out to be one of the longest and strongest bull markets in U.S. history.»

Not long after, she began to follow the news coverage of initial public offerings (IPOs)-- when private companies enter the public market — and came to know of the phenomenon known as the first day «pop.»

The S&P 500 closed below its 200 - day moving average for the first time 443 days, ending the third longest streak of all - time.

Last weekend, Trump lashed out at Comey on Twitter ahead of his interview on 20/20, the first of his days - long media blitz.

«US Fleet Tracking was one of the best decisions I made in a long time... Our call volume has only dropped because our first - call efficiency numbers are increasing and the use of GPS has greatly improved our response time and calls per day.»

«To those customers who tried Prime for the first time and our long time members, thank you for a great Prime Day,» Greg Greeley, the Amazon Prime division's vice president, said in a statement.

Holding fees on long option positions (all maturities) will not be applied for the first 30 days — holding fees will only apply after 30 days of holding a position.

But if a stock or index trades below the prior day's low (on the next day following a break of the 20 - EMA) and continues lower after the first opening hour, the price action may be headed for a deeper correction that could lead to a longer consolidation period.

Geidt, an intense young woman with long blond hair and a powerful speaking voice, was supposed to be a marketing intern, but she spent most of her first day handling customer service requests.

(We coffee fiends have found that it's less of a sacrifice to swap the second or third cup of the day — as long we're not expected to give up that first cup of joe, we're fine.)

At first glance, the idea that employee vacations are longer at companies with unlimited plans makes sense — they are theoretically more days to be taken, so employees go ahead and, well, take them.

Ask any long term tenant under rent control whether they wished they bought the day they first signed the lease and they'd emphatically say yes.

They use a long - run sentiment index derived from principal component analysis of six sentiment measures: trading volume as measured by NYSE turnover; the dividend premium; the closed - end fund discount; the number of and first - day returns on Initial Public Offerings; and, the equity share in new issues.

Over any period longer than one month, or that doesn't align with the start and stop dates (first and last day of the month), returns can vary significantly from the promised 2x exposure.

Market participants are looking forward to getting their first major reading on earnings from the biggest technology - sector players in the coming days, but for now, investor sentiment has been able to overcome what would ordinarily be a troubling rise in long - term bond yields that could signal a steeper move higher for interest rates in the near future.

Either way, come September, for the first time, Australians can no longer watch Australia's One Day or Twenty20 Internationals played in Australia on free - to - air television — with that (effectively siphoned) privilege going to the fewer than 30 per cent of Australian households subscribed to pay television.

Short term trading is a lot harder to be successful with, and unless you have obtained long term trading skills first, then you should not attempt to day trade.

The Shanghai Composite COMP, -0.18 % rallied on its first day back from a long holiday, but the Nikkei NIK, -0.16 % fell.

Although FEMA wanted to shut those down by June 1 — the first day of the 2018 hurricane season — spokesman John Mills said the housing crisis forced the agency to allow families to remain in those trailers longer.

Thus, on the first national celebration of Martin Luther King Day in 1986, Jesse Jackson decried the widespread focus on King's great, unifying «I Have a Dream» speech, and stressed instead King's opposition to the Vietnam War — an opposition, be it noted, that King came to only after long agonizing with his conscience, and that he always carefully distinguished from the position of the extremists within the anti-war movement.

The first reply I saw, from Chris, was as callous as the Professor's words to the class that long ago day.

New presidents may appoint new justices, but that project also is long and uncertain: even after 12 years with President Reagan and the first President Bush, both committed to overturning Roe v. Wade, the key votes to reaffirm Roe in 1992 came from the Republican appointees Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy and David Souter.

And he ran down SoHe who was only 22 and a Toronto university studying molecular biology and he aimed the steering wheel at Betty and accelerated — Betty whose mother had long ago named her Mary Elizabeth — and who was revelling in one of the first warm April days in her 95th — and last — spring on this spinning orb.

The first long hours have lengthened into days, the days into weeks.

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

If you have been a believer for long you have had these experiences: First, a day or season of reading the Bible where the verses jumped off the page and nourished your soul.

Chesterton's claim to be a Zionist may seem eccentric to us: but, again, it is hardly anti-Semitic: nor was it unusual (there was at the time a well - established tradition of Christian Zionism, of which A.J. Balfour is the most obvious example): it is why a group of Zionists invited Chesterton to Palestine, where he met and had a day - long discussion with Chaim Weizmann, later the first President of Israel, whoas a result became an admirer of Chesterton: Weizmann would certainly have sniffed out an anti-Semite if Chesterton had actually been one.

First, all their months are only 30 days long.

At the first core group meeting, I had no intention of doing marketing — I do it all day long.

Who / what claims the first 3 days were 24 hours long?

To think of the first humans in terms of dependence, need, and vulnerability makes me wonder whether Adam could have stubbed his toe, or whether he ever asked Eve for a backrub to relieve his sore muscles after a long day's work.

The sense of the goodness to be achieved by that choice, of the opportunity that may be missed, the love for the value discovered, the excitement and joy over it all, is exactly the same as it was for those who were drawn to Jesus in those long - ago days when he first walked among us.

Most ironically of all, the first group of scholars (who deny any connection) often say that «the issue has been decisively settled in our day and no reputable scholar believes in any such connection any longer.»

You can prove all day long with physics why a ball rolls down a hill and forget every step of the way that someone had to push it first.