Sentences with phrase «more as a conduit»

JR is presenting himself more as a conduit, driving a large truck that doubles as a poster - maker: Simply step inside, pose for a picture, and the truck will print you a six - foot photo to stick wherever you'd like.

The news isn't too surprising, since it has been speculated for some time that Amazon's tablet would serve more as a conduit to its digital media ecosystem, than a device to give Amazon a huge profit in sales alone.

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Those countries are being used by thousands of migrants as a conduit to bother enter the European Union and to get to more prosperous northern countries like Germany and Austria.

The Federal Communications Commission is considering more steps in the wake of growing concerns in Washington that Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and ZTE Corp, which make networking equipment and handsets, could act as conduits for espionage, something the two companies have denied.

It very much wants to be a conduit for more traditional fare as well.

It's unclear how oil flowing in a new pipeline, Keystone XL, could get slapped with more onerous treatment than the millions of barrels that already get shipped to the United States on existing lines, such as the initial Keystone conduit and several operated by Enbridge Inc..

And I think all atheists everywhere should revel in the mercenary nature of Christmas (now far more Jewish / East Indian in its execution than anything else) and its exposure of «faith» as a conduit for greed, judgment, and repression.

New respect for the spongy, blobby, short - lived placenta: Acts as much more than a passive conduit, shapes the development of the fetus, provides information science can't get anywhere else.

Once seen as little more than a sewage conduit, the Chicago River is now touted as a key public amenity by city boosters, including Mayor Richard Daley.

Tom Rosenstiel with the Project for Excellence in Journalism agreed, adding that in 2008 the traditional press became both more passive and more reactive than before, functioning as more of a conduit for the campaigns than as a check on them.

The complaint accuses Kelly of distributing more than $ 750,000 in bribes — $ 474,000 to a lobbyist who acted essentially as a conduit for illegal payments and another $ 287,000 to Joseph Percoco, who is described as Cuomo's «right - hand man.»

As you refine your listening, you gain access to more of your Highest Self, allowing you to be a larger conduit for Joy and Resplendence.

As you refine your listening, you gain access to more of your Highest Self, allowing you to be a larger conduit for joy and resplendence.

Film can be a spectator sport, but it can also be a team sport, a catalyst for invention more than as a conduit for information.

It seems that Hollywood has woken up to the vast store of talent that exists in the low - budget milieu, and more and more, the calling - card small film or successful TV stint is being used as a conduit to gain a higher profile and a bigger budget the next time out.

Players looking for deep and engaging lore look elsewhere, as For Honor's single player campaign is mostly a conduit for more grand ventures.

Rabbit's the biggest victim of this: he's still the film's «rookie,» but he's a gormless innocent who, despite his visible middle age, gets a sexy subplot with French - Canadian ingenue Genevieve Aubois (Emmanuelle Chriqui), whose character mostly exists as eye candy and a half - hearted conduit for more jokes about French accents.

The Wilson Yip films, starring Donnie Yen, follow a more conventional historical biopic structure with the great man caught in the sweep of historic events leading to triumph and tragedy; while Wong Kar - wai's The Grandmaster uses Ip as a conduit to explore the passing of one age of China's history into another, with martial arts serving a metaphorical purpose.

Also, in the news the details for Last.fm on the Xbox 360 are revealed, as well as GamePro's fanboy lashing for their The Conduit review, DJ Hero's pricing announced in the UK, Michael Pachter's latest prediction for the industry, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune becoming a movie, a new Onimusha game teased, and much more.

Whilst many have already given credit to the originality of the central plot about a curse being passed on by having sex, let us not forget the works of directors such as David Cronenberg and, if you want to go even more bizarre, Frank Henenlotter, who have both made films involving the distortion of sex and the idea of sex being the conduit for bad things to happen, And granted, the actual threat in It Follows is a supernatural one rather than one of the body turning on itself, but how many curse movies have there been since Ringu convinced us all that video tapes were credible vessels for evil beings from other dimensions to cross over and kill us?

Taylor - Johnson remains likeably bland, though, despite his character's name on the title, he isn't given nearly as much to do in this sequel except to be the conduit through which the plot can propel more of the colorful supporting characters to the forefront.

Beyond acting as conduits through which the Department of Education can provide services, the councils give local communities the opportunity to be more involved.

It would make more sense for Amazon to strip out uneccessary hardware and features from its tablet to make it as cheap as possible — especially since it will serve as a conduit to Amazon's own media services.

Simply posting something up on crowd funding sites probably is not going to get you more than asking your friends and relatives directly to do it, and you end up paying the site a small percentage for them acting as the conduit.

You arrive at the Tiers to declare an Edict, a powerful conditional spell that requires a conduit such as yourself, with effects ranging from massive earthquakes, permanent nightfall, erupting volcanoes or in the case of the Edict you just unknowingly declared: killing everyone in the Tiers unless Kyros's army takes the rebel stronghold within a little more than a week's time.

There's just something thoroughly satisfying about being so close to the action, seeing the weapon in your hand and all that jazz; more to the point, however, a shooter (of any variety) provides a certain steam - letting conduit, particularly if said shooter is centered around destroying as many robots / aliens / demons as you can, as fast as you can, whilst making as much of a mess as you can.

The side missions thankfully have a lot more variety than the first game and you'll do various things such as taking pictures of enemies for Intel, stopping enemy convoys, or helping out a super powered ice conduit take out his own friends.

Now new Conduits are appearing all over the world (with no explanation as to how) so the government is hunting down remaining Conduits while calling them «bio-terrorists» to justify their absurdly fascistic actions which really does more damage than the people they are hunting.

As your family settles into the basement, an auspicious array of monitors, and an even more perilous telephone, takes centre stage, a dark conduit between Carl and the government, which is really calling the shots in this game of control and conditioning.

Over time, Halley's compositions have become more intricate, as he has increased the number of conduits, prisons, and cells in each painting.

Crown Point has functioned as an etching workshop and gallery for more than 50 years, serving as a conduit for such artists as Richard Diebenkorn, Alex Katz, Sol Lewitt, and Helen Frankenthaler, and now has ushered in younger artists with active markets and critical profiles.

«Matthew wanted to have more pictorial things that weren't necessarily just for cats, so the show got very aesthetic, but it's really more of a social sculpture that uses art as a conduit for rescue.»

Over time, his compositions have become more intricate, as he has increased the number of conduits, prisons, and cells in each painting.

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These days, blogging seems a bit more staid with many blogs simply serving as conduits for snippets of other blog posts or articles, without any commentary.

Carayiannis wouldn't elaborate on what went wrong but simply said Conduit «can scale more rapidly as an independent firm.»

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«We have decided that Conduit Law can scale more rapidly as an independent firm,» said Carayiannis.

(i) BMO reducing its roster of firms from about 800 to 200 with further reductions planned; (ii) the clients of seven sister firms hiring me to help them get control over their legal spend and forge stronger and more value based relationships with their firms; (iii) the many small and mid-sized businesses who hire accountants to do all of their tax and structuring work because it is cheaper than dealing with lawyers; (iv) firms hiring me to help them figure out how to budget, set and meet client expectations without losing money; (v) «clients» who never become clients at all as they do their own legal work based on precedents that friends share with them; (vi) the various forms of outsourcing that are now prevalent (from offices in India to Tory's office in Halifax); (vii) clients hiring me to figure out how to increase internal capacity without increasing headcount in order to reduce external spend; (viii) the success of firms like Conduit, SkyLaw and Cognition (to name a few) who are taking new approaches to «big» and «medium law» work; (ix) the introduction of full time project managers in many firms; and (x) the number of lawyers throughout the profession who regularly don't docket chunks of their time in order to avoid unpleasant fee conversations with their clients.

The money laundering toolbox is still intact with private mortgages, property transfers, offshore corporations and lots more tools still viable as lawyers» secret conduits for tainted money.

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Little more than a conduit that passes streaming video from the cloud to your TV — with your mobile device as the remote control — there's little to add to Chromecast when it comes to updates.

Lady Petite sees bitcoin payments as a more secure conduit for her international submissives.

Her mission is inspiring others to live more fulfilling lives, and to use writing and speaking as the conduit.

In addition, the financing picture continues to improve as banks, life insurance companies and even conduit lenders have become more comfortable in lending on retail deals.

Some of the more well - funded conduits are going to survive and some of those that are not capitalized quite as well are going to have a tough time.»

In her responses she focused on challenges, such as community size, and opportunities, such as agencies and commercial banks representing a route to do more business with CMBS / conduit lenders at higher leverage levels for borrowers.