Sentences with phrase «of carrying a conversation»

Others, like Hanson Robotics, have invented remarkably human - like robots, capable of carrying a conversation (albeit a peculiar one) and recalling personal history.

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In the conversation reviewed by CNBC, Larionov said Giza offered to pay 60 percent of the total contract, with the rest coming later on in 2018, once they had carried out another part of the ICO to raise more money.

Plus, they put it together so well that you can't help but feel comfortable... if you can carry a conversation in front of an audience, you can do well on that show.

An important water - carrying one when it comes to shaping a conversation that's a form of guerrilla marketing, granted, but a subset nonetheless.

They understand that you should not trust a core process of your business to someone just because he or she knows how to smile confidently and carry on a conversation.

Within five minutes of me starting this casual, extra conversation, the gentleman decided that they really did want to carry the column.

But whatever the context, stressful conversations differ from other conversations because of the emotional loads they carry.

But being able to walk into a room of strangers, carry yourself with composure, have conversations that are meaningful and walk out with contacts is a skill that takes practice.

The killings in Florida have also revived the debate over whether teachers should be allowed to carry guns in schools — an idea DeVos, while careful not to outright endorse it, said in an interview last week with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt should «be part of the broader, more robust conversation about how can we avoid these things in the future.»

He feels relieved that none of his new friends seem to notice that his hand still trembles when he reaches out to shake theirs or that he can't carry on much of a conversation.

I am well aware that all of us make assumptions about people we talk to everyday, it's pretty much impossible to carry out a conversation otherwise.

Kent Annan's breathtaking book, After Shock: Searching for Honest Faith When Your World Is Shaken will release in February and carry the current conversation about faith and doubt to new levels of honesty, intelligence, and grace.

One fibre, the thickness of a human hair, can carry 2,000 phone conversations, data, text or pictures at the same time.

The irony is that those who memorize this book come from different backgrounds and regions in the world (the vast majority of whom can't speak Arabic or carry a conversation in Arabic but yet have those 600 pages memorized by heart.

But Farley's account of the dimensions of appraisal is still relatively molar and seems not to be fine - tuned enough to carry the church very far into the dialogues and conversations of the public world.

And while this sort of praying is not quite as strange as speaking in tongues, when it is carried over into a real - world conversation with another human being, it sounds completely bizarre.

That we can no longer carry on a genuine conversation from one camp to the other is the severest symptom of the sickness of present - day man.

It is a commitment to hold together with those who share a similar norm, to carry on mature conversations, to affirm a oneness in the gospel, while working on the issues that currently divide.3 Evangelicals need the collective wisdom of their best minds and spirits working together on the theological task of the church.

He had a voice that carried, a burning intensity that showed in his carriage and conversation, a large frame, and the broad, thick hands of a farmer.

By forsaking the world's definition of masculinity, shutting down demeaning and damaging conversations, and carrying the torch of gender equality even if it means you will lose the respect and affirmation of your peers, men can engage in changing the status quo.

To a certain extent becoming deaf and blind to distractions, a process often referred to as negative adaptation, is nature's way of enabling us not only to keep our sanity but also to earn a college degree, operate machinery, carry on a conversation, meditate, or get a little sleep.

Perhaps we should think of the participants as carrying along with them their sincerely held beliefs about the good and the true but agreeing, for the sake of consensus, not to put forward those beliefs in the course of the conversation.

This exchange was carried on in numerous meetings, large and small, formally sponsored by Religion and Public Life as well as over informal lunches and dinners and drinks» a conversation among socially and politically and religiously passionate scholars and clergymen and even, sometimes, among the staff during the meetings at which we decided on the contents of the next issue of the magazine.

A conversation about money carries with it the possibility of helping you both align your expenses with your priorities.

For a description of Buddhism in Ceylon, which carries all the flavor of conversations in a Buddhist monastery and presents Ceylonese Buddhism as it is seen by the Bhikkhus of Ceylon, see Walpola Rabula's History of Buddhism in Ceylon.

As a matter of fact, many moons ago I carried out a conversation with Topher openly declaring that I've never been to college for theology.

while there is nothing wrong with a Christian owning / running / operating our own business but at none of these places do you find that they are pushing their beliefs on other employees, requiring them to believe the same thing, etc. it's apparent with walmart — a horrible place to shop, employees don't care whether you need help or not & will even run over you while walking & texting on the job or standing around cussing & carrying on in their personal conversations instead of assisting customers.

Like all intellectual activity it is carried on in constant conversation among many subjects, whose ideas of the common object and whose reactions to it are compared, related and criticized.

Fabian sees Christian identity emerging as part of a conversation that God is carrying on with humanity — a conversation that we don't define, limit or direct.

And as always, teachers must use their discretion to determine when it is worth some level of student discomfort to push forward an academic conversation and when that conversation carries the risk of damaging classroom culture and student comfort beyond simple repair.

When there lacks voice inflections and tonality variations in phone call conversations and, facial emotions, body proximity and an endless array of other nonverbals during in person discussions, a text message is forced to carry the load of the entire human message being sent.

In my view, however, «Moby - Dick» has not been as influential as either Harriet Beecher Stowe's «Uncle Tom's Cabin» or Mark Twain's «Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,» each of which has carried considerable weight in our national conversation about race.

When Jaromir Jagr, who didn't know enough English as an 18 - year - old Penguin rookie last season to carry on a simple conversation with his coach, was told at the Czechoslovakian team's training camp in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, of Johnson's plight, he broke down and cried.

I can imagine that they are one of the glorious pregnancy side effects that gives others cause for laughter, but for you, the woman spasming all over the place, the newly - pregnant mamma who can't seem to eat anything or carry on the shortest of conversations without feeling like you're going to hiccup, or worse, they are anything but funny.

Just a decently attractive woman who takes good care of herself, can run a couple of miles, carry on a conversation, and is kind of outdoorsy.

After some conversations with them about this, it occurred to me that if I could get a hospitalist program in, I could replace this whole hodgepodge of affiliated physicians who were really governed by their fear of this world, and replace them with four people over whom I had command and control, but more interestingly, I really had the ability to carry on constructive dialogue about how we wanted to optimize our services.

She could judge what stage of labor I was in by how well I could carry on a conversation, so she wasn't too concerned.

Some parents may feel silly carrying on a conversation in the grocery store with a 2 - month - old, who can only gurgle in reply as you read the nutritional values from a box of Nutri - Grain Bars.

From private conversations I know some - perhaps even a slight majority - of Labour's Westminster quitters are prepared to skulk back onto the fontbench, though a vocal band of hardened refuseniks will carry on the war, resisting to the death.

Katko expects there to be plenty of conversation this week in Washington centering on what happened in an Orlando gay nightclub, when 29 - year old Omar Mateen carried out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

The debate over guns in Westchester has also made its way into local conversations, particularly in the town / village of Harrison, the village of Rye Brook, and the town of Mamaroneck, the latter of which briefly attempted to ban carrying weapons on its public property — an initiative that was quickly dropped after vehement public backlash.

This reaction was carried out by the Acting Director of Corporate Communications, Mr. Isaac Okorafor reacted to the allegation in a conversation with the Economic Confidential.

Each issue of Total Politics carries a set - piece «In Conversation» interview with a senior figure from British politics.

Whether talking with a passenger or someone on a cell phone, however, people are less able to recall the details of a conversation carried on while driving, adds psychologist Frank Drews, a coauthor of the study.

In a 2005 Harvard University functional imaging study of working memory — that short - term memory we use to carry on conversations or remember telephone numbers — a group of volunteers were given verbal attention tasks while inside the scanning machine.

With instant messaging, email, and other newfangled communications tools, scientists in different parts of the world can carry on spontaneous conversations with each other almost as if they were in the same room, the only cost being the cost, if there is one, of an Internet connection.

This experience leads to participants in online conferences — in which spoken contributions are preceded by a time delay due to the technology used — being regarded by the other participants as being negative; the experience of everyday conversation is subconsciously carried over into the conference situation.

You are probably safe carrying on a conversation with a passenger while driving on an empty highway, and many parents have discovered, perhaps with some guilt, that they can read a story to a child while thinking of something else.

Samantha was free to roam the Internet and the world, carrying out hundreds of conversations at once.

We'll carry on this conversation once you have seen some of the videos.