Sentences with phrase «much events of the past»

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«Last week showed how much more work we need to do to enforce our policies and help people understand how Facebook works and the choices they have over their data,» Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egan and Deputy General Counsel Ashlie Beringer wrote in a statement Wednesday, Most of the security page updates have been in the works for some time, «but the events of the past several days underscore their importance.»

He pictured the role of the past in each event as determinative of much of it.

They were as much concerned with pointing out the meaning of past events and of present situations as with the future.

The resurrection is not just an event of the past; it must still be authenticated in the encounter with which Bultmann is so much concerned.

Moreover, he lays so much emphasis on the fact that this event of the past can be real only if it is brought into vital connection with our own lives, that he undermines the historical character of the event itself.

That's not really a phrase, as much as a restatement of past events.

It doesn't take much at all to make me blush, and so the events that have transpired in the past few hours have left me nearly catatonic and in hiding in the corners of my own home.

Though Spitzer has steadfastly insisted he made the right choice at the time, the events of the past year have proved he would have saved New Yorkers a lot of grief had he done a much better job in reviewing the background of his running mate.

Measuring the sympathy is much easier through the use of technology (e.g. online polls), so it is much harder to evaluate for some past events.

De Blasio, who spent much of his first year in office blaming his predecessor for various ills plaguing the city, was all smiles and compliments at an event with the former mayor in South Bronx marking the planting of one million trees over the past eight years in New York City — a Bloomberg administration initiative that was completed two years ahead of schedule.

How do we know so much about long - past events and parts of the planet we've never seen?

«November is already off to a really warm start for much of the contiguous U.S. and Decembers tend to be very warm when we look at past strong El Niño events,» Crouch said.

Temperature during the winter as a whole have generally decreased over the past two decades, likely as a result of climate change, but the sensitivity of ozone loss to the exact timing of March warming events makes ozone depletion a much more variable quantity.

Now, for the past six years, I have had seven dresses that I always wear for formal events (black - tie, weddings): (1) a long sleeved, high - necked, knee length black lace dress by Lover, whose darts I removed entirely so that it falls straight from my shoulders to hips to knees in a very loose, comfortable cut (no need to pull any waists in, and I can eat as much as I like) that I made an underskirt for, so it can also be calf length (2) an ivory version of the same above, with the optional lace underskirt (3) an amazingly intricate ivory leather macrame flapper dress uner which I wear a dark brown long, stretch singlet dress (so comfortable again)(4) a vermillion small V - neck, long bell sleeved, straight cut, long, widens - at - the -(just above ankle) hemline dress I sewed in the most gorgeous lace for twenty dollars (5) a burgundy lace version of the vermillion lace dress in (4)-- for the same price (6) a knee length, Romance Was Born silk shift three sizes up so it sits away from the waist — again — its all about «a'll the better to eat dinner with, my dear», in a huge, wild sunflower graphic print before graphic prints were trendy: it's giant sunflowers against an intense turquoise background (7) a calf length caftan cut dress that I made from Japanese printed silk my mother had bought and kept for sixty years (it's just a giant square with a hole fro my neck and two for my arms, and has the best drape EVER owing to its being silk)

Perhaps still reeling from the sheer ridiculousness of Battleship, Peter Berg has devoted much of his past few years to recreating one all - too - real event after another.

First Snow isn't so much a traditional thriller as it is a psychological drama, dealing with how one's future is largely controlled by events of the past.

First glimpsed at a choir rehearsal presided over by the (literally) barking Hilary, Moll is shadowed by traumatic events from her past and is about to fall under the sway of a shadowy figure very much from her present.

What's interesting about the Days of Future Past teaser screened at Comic - Con and the leaked image (see above) of older Wolverine is that both emphasize how Logan is now aging, clearly a result of the events of The Wolverine where the character not only loses his adamantium claws, but part of his ability to heal, meaning he now ages at a much faster rate.

Those of us without the time or inclination to relive high school can choose from a small range of books published over the past several years by noneducators (usually journalists) who, provoked by events at Columbine, piqued by their own children's high - school experience, or simply in need of a job, took a semester or a year off to revisit the scene of so much youthful Sturm und Drang.

As has happened much too often in the past year, current events are having an impact on the hearts and minds of our students

Many traders do not realise how much your AUD / USD and forex outlook of today is shaped by past events.

Wonderful memories of past events, our rescue dogs, cats and much more!

Of course veterans will still take much more from the story as they'll already feel connected to certain characters or understand references to past events.

Although the ending of the game answered pretty much all the questions we might have had about Aloy's past and the events that led humanity close to extinction, that didn't stop Guerilla Games from giving fans more of this amazing world with The Frozen Wilds expansion.

[EDIT — With the proper dataset, EA's performance is much more in line with the profile of the company over the past few years, with Star Wars Battlefront II as a top game, and Anthem's performing very well, in great part due to the double featuring at the EA conference and the Microsoft event]

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of «The Legend of Zelda» series Nintendo of Japan will be releasing a live - recording CD on February 15th of a concert event held in Japan this past October, very much similar to the US's «Symphony of the Goddess».

The Civil War crossover, though a more recent event in the Marvel Universe, manages to carry as much emotional weight as stories like The Age of Apocalypse, Days of Future Past and any of the other amazing tales from the past 60 yePast and any of the other amazing tales from the past 60 yepast 60 years.

The storyline and narrative was incredibly deep, notably more so than most prior installments, and much of Hyrule's past and ultimate fate were revealed through the game's events.

«Despite all that has changed in the past two millennia, this is the event that could happen again and with much the same consequences,» write Getty director Timothy Potts and David Franklin, director of the Cleveland Museum (where the show travels before arriving at Quebec's Musée national de beaux - arts) in their co-authored catalogue introduction.

Much more than secondary documents conveying an event in the past, photographs and videos of well - known projects of the 1970s and 1980s, including A Mile of Crosses by Lotty Rosenfeld, Para no morir del hambre en el arte (So as Not to Die of Hunger in Art) by CADA, and Las Cantatrices (The Female Singers) by Carlos Leppe, asserted themselves as presences that brought material and sensorial residues of the historical past into the contemporary time of the gallery.

The Baths» conditions act to disrupt the narrative flow of the drama so that scenes play out in fits and starts, to incite a profound level of disorientation and to conjure memory where notions of time and space become confused — past historical events and climates arrive in the present much like a sudden change in the weather.

In any event, what I'm left with after continually encountering Frida's Instagram thread for the past several years is, this is nothing short of a mobile repository, a litany of residua, a voluptuous trail of black continuity, pyramid schemata as densely inscribed as any book of the dead, not so much an archive as an ark, a borne witness to the singularity that is blackness.

Something that occurs quickly, without premeditation, is patiently given the opportunity to solidify as a complete idea, a process that speaks to the mind's capacity to subsequently make sense of sudden events, as well as the ways in which memories, products of the present as much the past, are molded from moment to moment.

Much has been said of the cinematic nature of Matta - Clark's projects — understandably, as light, space, and time feature in set - like scenarios, the events themselves essentially temporal and extant now only as remembrances of things past.

The British Hydrological Society's Chronology of extreme weather events shows all too clearly that we have had (in the U.K.) much more severe flooding in Britain, and long before the recent warming trend set in, for centuries past.

Precipitation occurs about once every seven days in the western part of the region and once every three days in the southeastern part.77 The 10 rainiest days can contribute as much as 40 % of total precipitation in a given year.77 Generally, annual precipitation increased during the past century (by up to 20 % in some locations), with much of the increase driven by intensification of the heaviest rainfalls.77, 78,79 This tendency towards more intense precipitation events is projected to continue in the future.80

Prior to the 1980s there were no signs of any global coral bleaching events for the past ten thousand years, and probably much longer.

- Notice, during the current cold phase, there has been permanent ice caps in Antarctica for only 10 million years and at the North Pole for less than 5 million years (demonstrating that ice caps are a rare event in Earth's history, which shows we are in a cold phase)- Notice that the planet has had no ice caps — therefore it has been much warmer than now — for about 80 % of the past 500 million years.

The response of the North Atlantic SST anomalies to an ENSO event has been very much one sided over the past three decades.

While much of the enthusiasm at the American Wind Energy Association's (AWEA's) WINDPOWER 2017 annual event in Anaheim, Calif., was focused on onshore wind technology and development, a number of industry experts noted that over the past year, the offshore wind sector has seen a surge that can be pegged on dramatic cost declines, policy initiatives, and a big leap in technical advancements.

«The meteorologist Jeff Masters wrote on his blog, «Any one of the extreme weather events of 2010» — a year whose litany of disasters reads much like last year's — «or 2011 could have occurred naturally sometime during the past 1,000 years.

And by the way, I am not aware of any event in the Paleoclimate record where CO2 in the atmosphere rises this much this fast although, to be fair, paleoclimate data from the distant past often lacks the fine resolution required for such a demonstration.

With around one thousand attendees, last year's inaugural South by Southwest Eco conference (SXSW Eco) was a much smaller, more intimate affair compared to the tens of thousand raucous attendees drawn to the hugely popular SXSW: Film, Music and Interactive events that have been taking place in Austin, Texas for the past 25 years, but according to Director of SXSW Eco, Scott Wilcox, last year's event was «the spark» that showed them the possibilities of this budding event.

Based on my informal discussions with lawyers and the business community over the past year, it appears that the deal - making phase, lawyers pay a lot of attention to the terms of the deal but give much less thought to what happens when conflicts or unexpected events occur during the course of the arrangement.

As the New York Times noted, before the events of the past few weeks, the company actively resisted changes to its exempt status with the excuse that identifying which ads were political or not would require too much manpower.

With just about 24 hours to go before Google's Pixel 2 event, you'd think that not much would be left to leak following the past few weeks of rumored specs, devices renders, and more.

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EARLE3407 Old Dobbin Road, Montgomery, Alabama 36116 - 1903Home Phone: [phone] Cell Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone] E-mail: [email protected] position managing legal discovery and document review with opportunity to assist attorneys with civil litigationBAR ADMISSIONAlabama State Bar, 1999LAW - RELATED EXPERIENCELaw Firm, AlabamaResearch Attorney for Special Projects, Mass Torts Department, November 2001 — February 2008 • Managed Multi-District Litigation (MDL) Document Depository (September 2002 to February 2008) o Reviewed more than 1 million pages of evidentiary documents for litigation purposes and for inclusion in electronic databaseso Coordinated document review assignments with attorneys at local depository and at other sites across the USo Retrieved, reviewed and coded documents in Concordance and Summation legal databaseso Prepared memoranda and spreadsheets providing detailed analysis of discovery materials • Aided attorneys and support staff with processing and preparation of personal injury claims and litigationo Conducted legal research and drafted pleadingso Conducted supplementary online research for additional documents and information pertinent to litigationo Assisted with preparation of correspondence to clients and referring attorneyso Contacted clients for additional information needed in case preparation, litigation, and potential settlementso Prepared and input case intakes and referrals into databaseLaw School, AlabamaStudent Intern, Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP), August 1996 — June 1997 • Participated in law school clinical program under third - year law student practice rule (as authorized by Alabama Supreme Court) o Assisted attorneys and advocates in cases involving mentally ill patients confined to state mental health facilitieso Interviewed clients in person (at state facilities) and over the phoneo Worked with clients, attorneys, and social workers to investigate and resolve issues concerning involuntary confinement and treatmento Aided in legal research on an appellate brief submitted to the U. 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Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (ruling granted in favor of our client) Faculty Research Assistant for Library Services, Bounds Law Library, March 1996 — June 1997 • Prepared research and teaching materials for law school faculty; worked 20 hours per week while matriculating 10 - 15 hours per semester) o Investigated copyright issues related to procuring and reproducing texts for academic useo Conducted legal research using WESTLAW, LEXIS and the InternetADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCEManufacturing Company (MC), Montgomery, AlabamaAdministrative Assistant and Cost Analyst, Materials Purchasing Department, April 1999 — September 2001 • Assisted materials buyers in negotiating and preparing commodities contracts between raw materials suppliers and MC for manufacturing plants in the US and Mexicoo Assisted Legal Department at MC's corporate headquarters with coordination and preparation of documents for litigationo Notified and educated suppliers about MC's freight - on - board policy and its corresponding Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) provisions; result was the reduction of freight claims for both the company and its supplierso Prepared contracts and purchase orders for raw materials and capital projects involving plant maintenanceo Solicited price quotations from current vendors and established Excel spreadsheet format which simplified quote submission process and allowed MC to track and compare usage volumes and costs over timeo Prepared and analyzed cost reports used by materials buyers and production planners in purchasing decisions, including cost reductions, materials consolidation, and selection of vendorso Acted as liaison between vendors and the Purchasing, Transportation and Accounting Departments on issues concerning inbound freight, commercial carriers, and payment terms for commodities, resulting in reductions in freight costs and greater payment discounts for raw materialso Established online databases and printed directories for the Purchasing Department, allowing buyers to have easier and faster access to current vendor informationo Completed Year 2000 (Y2K) compliance project, which involved data collection and communication with MC's past, present, and potential materials suppliers and service providersNot - For - Profit Organization, AlabamaAdministrative Assistant, Combined Federal Campaign, September 1998 — January 1999 • Aided Campaign Director with 1998 Federal Campaigns (CFCs) in City 1 and City 2, which together generated nearly $ 700,000 for more than 1,000 local, national and international charitieso Prepared weekly reports on donations using WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, Excel and dBase IVo Wrote script for Talent Showcase at City 1's 1998 CFC Kickoffo Assisted Director with merger of the City 1 and City 2 CFCs in 1999Regional Bank, AlabamaAdministrative Assistant, Year 2000 (Y2K) Department, March — June 1998 • Worked with Vice President of Corporate Projects on short - term project for the bank's Y2K Departmento Analyzed and processed data on Y2K readiness for all branches of Bank throughout the southeastern USo Organized meetings for personnel of Banko Communicated with vendors of computer hardware, software, and office equipment to request information on Y2K complianceo Prepared compliance files for Federal Reserve auditso Prepared in - house memoranda and reports using Microsoft Word and ExcelRecord / Music Promotion Company, AlabamaRecord Pool Co-Founder; Office Manager, September 1990 — December 1991 • Co-founded record pool to enhance promotion of music in Alabama and the southeastern USo Procured and distributed records from major and independent labels for club, radio and mobile disc jockeyso Coordinated jointly sponsored promotional events with record companies, radio stations and clubso Designed, wrote, and published bi-weekly reports and brochures to inform the music industry of the progress and popularity of music and performers in the region, with specific focus on the Alabama music sceneMajor University, AlabamaGraduate Research Assistant, AUM Department of Marketing, June 1989 — August 1990 • Worked 13 - 20 hours per week as a research assistant to Marketing faculty while carrying a full course load in the MBA programo Analyzed consumer surveys used in academic researcho Assisted Conference Chairperson with coordination for Atlantic Marketing Association (AMA) annual meeting (October 1989) o Co-authored five - year index and classification of AMA Proceedings (published Fall 1991) EDUCATIONLaw School, AlabamaJuris Doctor (JD), 1997 • Scholarshipso Seybourn H. Lynne Scholarship, 1996 - 97o Dexter C. Hobbs Memorial Scholarship, 1995 - 96o E. W. Godbey Memorial Scholarship, 1994 - 95 • Honorso Who's Who Among American Law School Students, 1996 - 94o Arthur Davis Shores Award, 1997 • Activitieso Frederick Douglass Moot Court Team Manager, 1996 - 97 Southern Regional Competition, Second Place National Competition, Eighth Placeo John A. Campbell Moot Court Competition, Spring 1996o Black Law Students Association Delegate, BLSA National Convention, 1997 Co-Chairperson, Public Relations Committee, 1996 - 97 Chairperson, Public Relations Committee, 1995 - 96 BLSA President's Award, 1996 and 1997o American Bar Association, 1996 - 97 Entertainment and Sports Industries Forum Intellectual Property Section Law Student Divisiono LAWS Student Group Leader, 1995 - 96Major University, AlabamaMaster of Business Administration (MBA), 1990Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (B.S.B.A.), 1988 (Major: Marketing — Advertising and Promotion Track) • Honorso Dean's List • Activitieso National Student Advertising Competition Team, 1988 - 90 Seventh District Competition: Third Place, 1990o Marketing Club, 1987 - 90 Vice President — Career Development, 1988 - 89o Public Relations / Advertising (PR / AD) Club, 1988 - 90 Charter Member, 1988 Active in fund - raising and membership driveso Theater Guild, 1988 - 90 Screening Committee, 1989REFERENCESAvailable upon request

Webb found that, for each of these people, it was not so much as an event or troubling treatment from their past, but a lack of emotional attunement passed on by their parents.

Couples therapy is useful to people who want to rebuild their relationships after a traumatic event, such as the loss of a child, the discovery of one or more affairs, a death in the family, left over relationship hurts from the past, and much more.