Sentences with phrase «of amusement in»

Though conflict discussions have the potential to throw us into a negative place, ranging from frustration to great distress, practicing the exercises we described on Monday may have an unforeseen benefit: Using new (and potentially foreign sounding) terminology may be a source of amusement in the midst of a stressful conversation.

As BaldLawyer Chandler Mason illustrated last week, there is rarely a shortage of amusement in the world of lawyer advertising.

Palestinian artist Sharif Waked explores the industry of amusement in his video, Gaza Zoo, referencing an incident in which animals in a zoo in Gaza perished during Israeli attacks, only to be replaced by an enterprising zoo owner who painted donkeys to look like zebras.

I couldn't make out what the guy on the other end was saying, but I could hear a distinct lack of amusement in the squawking coming from the phone.

At first, they provide a bit of amusement in a story that doesn't seem the least bit amusing.

While the subject matter is as serious as can be, there is a level of amusement in seeing the folly of these deluded men, as their delusions of grandeur seem to multiply as the number of men in their party decrease.

Either way, it's really close and both provide the same high level of amusement in the end.

While there were moments of amusement in American Pie 2, they were few and far between.

There was more than a twinkle of amusement in his eye as he did so.

All the while, Jesus continues to sit there with a small smile on his face and a twinkle of amusement in his eyes.

Not exact matches

The announcement came in a press release Thursday afternoon from National Amusements, the Redstone family holding company that owns 80 % of the voting shares in both Viacom and CBS.

National Amusements is a vehicle that was originally created by Sumner Redstone's father Michael, to hold ownership of the family's chain of movie theaters in the 1960s.

Having started her day with a solitary predawn yoga session, Antonetti is in high gear, rattling off a long list of amusements she intends to bring in for a fair in the parking lot behind the building.

Otherwise, there's the nearby and ever - entertaining New York City, a hundred - plus miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline, a smallish mountain range or two, a major amusement park, a half dozen professional sports teams (most of them mediocre at best), small - time skiing, a pretty Ivy League campus by the name of Princeton University, a wealth of black bear in exclusive suburban communities, the early homes of such celebrity types as Martha Stewart, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Springsteen, the site of the Hindenburg disaster, and (for visionary types) the ghosts of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, who lived and worked in the state for awhile.

And that's not to mention the free food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner on Facebook's Disneyland-esque campus, the free housing, the free shuttles to - and - from said housing, and all of the activities (a weekend in Yosemite, a day renting out Great America amusement park, theatre performances, Alcatraz tours, scavenger hunts, and more).

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was on hand in Shanghai in September for the signing of a deal between Winnipeg - based Empire Industries and Chinese partner Altair (Shanghai) Space Technology to develop a $ 600 - million amusement park on the theme of space travel.

On shelf after shelf in the Indigo bookstore downstairs, they're peddling the same story, that of a dystopian future where teens are forced to fight to the death for the amusement of adults.

The Palais Des Congrès, a hulking and angular 1970s - era convention center in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, was constructed on the former site of Luna Park, the largest amusement park ever built in the French capital.

A listing of all companies by SIC codes reveals, for example, how many businesses are engaged in hunting, trapping, and game propagation (295, and all but one employs fewer than 500 people); coin - operated amusement devices (4,513, and all but 28 are small companies); and hundreds of other subindustries and sub-subindustries.

It sits in the middle of the Huis Ten Bosch amusement park in the southwestern Japanese city.

National Amusements in turn controls about 79 percent of the voting stock in Viacom and 76 percent in CBS — and about 11 percent of the equity in each.

Viacom's former CEO Philippe Dauman was on the board of National Amusements as well as a member of the seven - person trust that takes over Sumner Redstone's stake in National Amusements after he dies or is declared incapacitated.

Most of it focused on whether Sumner had swindled his relatives in winning control of the family's movie - theater business, called National Amusements.

In the decades after the stock transfer, National Amusements served as Redstone's holding company for his bold acquisitions of Viacom, Paramount Pictures and CBS, in which he retains 80 % controlling interesIn the decades after the stock transfer, National Amusements served as Redstone's holding company for his bold acquisitions of Viacom, Paramount Pictures and CBS, in which he retains 80 % controlling interesin which he retains 80 % controlling interest.

Walt Disney was visiting Tivoli Gardens, one of Europe's oldest amusement parks, when he realized he could create a bigger, better version in California.

Negotiations between Moonves and National Amusements Inc (NAI), through which the Redstones own an 80 percent stake of CBS (cbs) and Viacom (viab), have not started in earnest, and the exact terms that he will be asking for are not clear, the people said.

Gaining Shari's voting stock — which amounts to close to 16 percent of the votes in both Viacom and CBS and is held by National Amusements — would simply add to Sumner's already ironclad control of both companies.

THE whole picture of industry, business, and amusements, then, may be summed up by repeating that while there are certain industries which Jews dominate and certain industries in which Jewish participation is considerable there are also vast industrial fields, generally reckoned as the most typical of our civilization, in which they play a part so inconsiderable as not to count in the total picture.

At issue: the IRS's claim that Redstone owed $ 737,625 in unpaid gift taxes, dating back to his 1972 transfer of stock in National Amusements, his family's private holding company, into trusts for his two children.

In June, the Redstone family holding company, National Amusements Inc., sent a letter to Viacom saying it had decided to replace five members of the board, including Dauman.

Shari's role within Sumner's media businesses began to be more prominent in 2005, when she was appointed vice chairman of Viacom, after serving since 1999 as president of National Amusements.

Shari had felt that she should also be allowed a stock distribution to make a donation, or that Sumner's gift should have been made in the name of National Amusements.

From deserted Olympic venues to silent amusement parks to hotels that haven't had guests in centuries, abandoned places continue to capture the imagination of urban explorers and curious people around the world.

It's a crowded game, with Redstone's daughter Shari in for a position that gives her great control over his trust and holdings in National Amusements, which owns 80 percent of Viacom and CBS.

Jordan's Furniture has stores in Reading, Natick and Avon, Mass., Nashua, N.H., and Warwick, R.I.. Each location has its own amusement component, including IMAX theaters, laser water shows, holiday villages, a city made of jelly beans and restaurants.

The discipline to excel at these sports remains with Zinn, who in his 70s still walks on his hands at his company's headquarters to the amusement of Micrel employees and visiting executives.

«The picture is quite clear, Mr. Redstone is being manipulated and used by his daughter in an attempt to accomplish her long - held goal, which Mr. Redstone has always opposed, of gaining control of National Amusements and Viacom,» the Viacom statement said.

Wolfe has substantial experience in corporate lawsuits that appear in the Court of Chancery in Delaware, where he is based; he represented National Amusements in the Viacom - Redstone case, along with Walmart as it battled allegations of bribery in Mexico.

In his statement, Tu, a lawyer with the Los Angeles law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, said that Dauman and Abrams had also been removed as directors of National Amusements Inc., the holding company that owns the controlling shares of cable giant Viacom and CBS.

Entertainment expenses: The act disallows a deduction for (1) an activity generally considered to be entertainment, amusement, or recreation; (2) membership dues for any club organized for business, pleasure, recreation, or other social purposes; or (3) a facility or portion thereof used in connection with any of the above items.

I know, I know, if you don't argue with us you won't get to watch us being tortured for your amusement when you become an angel in heaven, but do you have to be so full of it?

«And as wealth increases, luxury threatens the physical less and less in the work of their hands, more and more in the titillation of their flesh; the pleasure of amusement replaces the happiness of creation.

He carries on the business for which his talents qualify him, earning his livelihood, guarding his family and his interests, and abstaining from sin in matters of food and drink and evil amusements.

The amateur in front of a microphone is tempted to indulge the pleasure of broadcasting his thoughts and feelings, to the great amusement or annoyance of his audience.

There are thousands and thousands of Christian churches all over America in every city and every neighborhood which Christian themed music, concerts, venues, shopping malls, amusement parks.

Albom's character, Eddie, is an unassuming maintenance worker at an amusement park who meets his demise in the predictably heroic fashion of a Hollywood script: he dies trying to save a little girl from a runaway ride.

The manifestation of the «anti» has long since gone and we are living in its» prevailing amusements!

Hopefully there's a few people in that number that only listen for the amusement of seeing what stupidity falls out his sinfully ugly mouth next, sort of like I do when I watch Fox News lol!

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?»

People think they are in it after they have in fact been pushed out of it, or before they have been allowed in: this provides great amusement for those who are really inside.