Sentences with phrase «motion the events of»

She's been disillusioned for some time but now she's moved to action, a psychological tipping point which sets in motion the events of this darkly comedic suburban adventure.

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It might sound strange to say, but I'm grateful for the series of events losing my job set in motion, because those months were among the most profound and precious of my life.
Meanwhile, Italy's referendum this upcoming Sunday threatens — if Italians reject the reform proposals — to set in motion a chain of events that could result in that country leaving the Eurozone.
Billionaire Wang Jianlin, chairman and president of Dalian Wanda Group, right, shakes hands with Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), during an event in Los Angeles on Oct. 17, 2016.
On Aug. 23, Research In Motion hosted hundreds of developers in Kitchener, Ont., for its hometown edition of the company's BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour events.
Greenwalt was one of five «Women of Influence» I interviewed onstage last March at an event hosted by Tech in Motion: Silicon Valley.
While the decision to publicize the suspects» identities resulted in the arrest of one of the men, it set in motion a violent string of events that lasted for 26 hours.
One of his proudest moments as a Trustee was when a motion he introduced passed that acknowledged the traditional territories before the national anthem was to be sung at all board related events and schools.
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Former Uber engineer Susan Fowler's account of sexual harassment and sexism at the company set into motion a series of events that eventually led to the departure of a number of top executives including Kalanick's deputy SVP Emil Michael.
In hindsight, they count the success of their albums and the forward motion that resulted as some of the most significant events for them.
In principle, they thought, if one could know the location and motion of each atom at a particular point in time, one could predict all subsequent events.
But as long as one is committed to substantialist thinking, one assumes that in the ultimate analysis the event can be understood in terms of matter in motion — atoms moving around in the void.
This means that, instead of analyzing events into matter in motion, we analyze matter and motion in terms of the field of events.
7) The election Pope John Paul II set into motion a series of events which brought down Soviet communism.
But most modern philosophers have supposed that when we analyze these events fully, we can explain them in terms of the activities of subjects or the motions of objects.
But it is Christ's coming that sets these events in motion: «Lambs must be immolated for him who will be crucified, who takes away the sins of the world.»
When Martin Luther nailed his lengthy list of doctrinal objections to the church door in Wittenberg, he probably never imagined that his actions would set in motion a train of events which would rend the Western Church in two for the next 500 years.
He lists four distinct analyses of time in Western philosophy:» (I) time as a space - like extended dimension, or as an actual series; (2) time as recurrent periodic motion; (3) time as progressive maturity or age; and (4) time as a distention of the soul, awareness of the sequences of states and events that make up our subjective experience» (WPP 65).
Instead of assuming that the world is composed of substantial objects and their attributes and motions, why not speculate that it is composed of events.
What is truly a miracle, in the pejorative sense of an event having no rational connection with what has gone before, is the emergence of a being with consciousness, free will, and a capacity to understand the laws of nature in a universe which in the beginning contained only matter in mindless motion.
Galileo's rethinking of the idea of motion, his idea that motion was a natural state for matter, did wonders for the attempt to understand acceleration and the behavior of projectiles, but it certainly raised hob with the Aristotelian account of events in the heavens.
The voice of teenage heroine Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) reverberates around a packed but silent town square, setting in motion a chain of events that will almost certainly lead to her death.
While just about everyone familiar with Scripture has heard of the beautiful Queen Esther, few know of Vashti, the «other queen,» whose defiance set in motion the events that would allow Esther to rise to power and save the Jewish people.
But it is also impossible, from Kim's viewpoint, to say that the mental event somehow initiated the causal path that led to the physical motion, and this for two reasons: The first is the usual problem of understanding how a nonphysical event could influence physical processes.
But in the chronic case, where the patient is not in imminent danger of death, the omission of assisted N&H is a lethal omission, for by that omission we set in motion a chain of events known to be death - dealing.
After trying so long to think of events as simply the product of matter in motion, it is time to think of matter as a pattern of events.
When God saw that this destruction was inevitable, He set in motion a series of events to rescue and deliver as many people as He could from this great evil.
As described in a Science paper, astronomers measured the motion of gas to a distance approximately 5.5 times the event horizon radius.
In a statement the DUSA said: «The Student Representative Council (SRC) of the University of Dundee passed a motion banning the SPUC and similar organisations from DUSA ran events such as Freshers» Fair.
The dominant philosophy of modernity has analyzed events in terms of matter in motion.
And by way of a bribe to the King, he set in motion some events that would do just that.
The above understanding of motion as a non-continuous event accords neatly with Brian Greene's claim that «it» (i.e. what he has just written) «forcefully challenges» the notion that the fabric of space and time is continuous.
But as every motion in space is relative and can be transformed into a rest by an appropriate change of the frame of reference, it is permissible to regard the present moment as stationary and future events as moving toward the past with an equal and opposite velocity, to wit, opposite with respect to the velocity of the present moment in the first picture.
At any rate it shows a complete failure to understand its meaning when it is objected that my definition reduces the event of revelation to a cause which sets self - understanding in motion, so that it is no longer a fact which interferes and changes reality, like a miracle.
Throughout the two hour event, guests can sample various prohibtion - era cocktails such as the White Lady, a drink that is a tribute to Mata Hari, the Temperance Tea, or the Mary Pickford, a cocktail honoring one of the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Combined with the events from Saturday night's NXT show, the Barclays Center was the site of some of the best WWE wrestling of the year all weekend, but a lot of things have been put into motion, not least of which is some pretty serious chicanery involving SummerSlam guest host Jon Stewart.
But, that's when an improbable chain of events would kick into motion.
I do not believe that PL referees are biased of incompetant, it just seems like it to us fans, who view the incident in slow motion from multiple angles after the event and can take our time to form an opinion.
But the last biting incident he had at school set into motion a chain of events that led us to a great child development specialist, who sent us to a kick - ass occupational therapist and also helped us find a therapeutic aide for him in the classroom.
The case I described involving a trip for a family event was decided completely upon the father's lack of understanding of food allergies, and his motion to the Court was unsuccessful.
Top tethers limit the forward motion of your child's head (head excursion) in the event of a crash.
The two of them then launched into an entire recount of the event ending with my oldest son saying, while making a scratching motion, «And I did this and that was not OK.»
The High Court also ruled that it is crude and improper for police officers to appear before courts with ex parte motions seeking to prohibit the holding of street protests and other public events.
In a dramatic turn of events the amendments were motioned for review by the Party's Executive Committee instead of being afforded an up or down vote by the county committee's members as required by Party rules.
Two weeks ago, the Campaign for Labour Democracy's AGM passed a motion calling for Lutfur Rahman, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, to be readmitted to the party and for a full investigation into events since the disastrous 2010 selection process that led to this former Labour council leader standing as an independent and winning against an imposed Labour candidate — Helal Abbas.
The Hollywood Reporter published details about the event, noting its guests included CBS C.E.O. Leslie Moonves, director Steven Spielberg and former senator Chris Dodd, head of the Motion Picture Association of America.
It supported Humanist and Secularist Liberal Democrats (HSLD) in their efforts to draft the motion, and the BHA's Director of Public Affairs and Policy spoke in favour of the motion at a fringe event organised by HSLD and the Liberal Democrat Education Association on Friday.
But yesterday, he moved to rede fine the terms of Albany's annual budget debate — perhaps setting into motion events that could change forever the way New York spends.
«In addition to the loss of customer traffic at his restaurant, he has lost several hundreds of thousands of dollars of catering and events accounts because of the cloud of suspicion under which he has lived,» Feit wrote in the motion.
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