Sentences with phrase «of jai»

From twenty centuries in the distant past, the great Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius speaks of the jai mitchells» of our world:

BOB HOUSTON Mayor of Dania Yes, because the skill of the players and the excitement of the sport is the chief appeal of jai alai.

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The select subject index in my Jacques Ellul: A Comprehensive Bibliography (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1984) lists major references to speech or the word in nine of Ellul's forty books (others could have been added), as well as in ten of his six - hundred - odd articles.

«At the end of the day, we just want to bring gai daan jai to a broader audience,» and a little Instagram fame certainly never hurts — just ask Dominique Ansel.

Years later, he was eating at one of the other gai daan jai carts in the neighborhood with some friends when the idea first hit him to make his own.

The «Puffle» cones are crafted from gai daan jai, which translates to «little eggs,» — a fluffy, eggy waffle with semi-spherical cells — with a number of English interpretations (bubble waffles, eggettes, and Hong Kong cakes, just to name a few).

Recently, New Jersey State Senator David Friedland introduced a bill calling for the establishment of frontons in Jersey City, Camden and Long Branch, even though last year New Jersey voters turned down jai alai in a referendum.

The arrests ordered by Connecticut authorities are likely to be merely the first of a number that will send shock waves through Florida, Rhode Island and Nevada, where betting on jai alai is also legal, and perhaps put a fatal crimp in the sport's plans to invade Delaware, Louisiana, Maryland and about a dozen other states and two Canadian provinces.

At week's end, the police had been unable to find Juan Guardino, a 40 - year - old jai alai player and native of Spain, to arrest him on identical charges.

Using the standard spiel of proponents of legalized betting on jai alai and other sports, Senator Friedland renewed the call for building frontons in Jersey by claiming that the revenues the state would derive from the pari - mutuel betting would «be dedicated to helping the elderly and the medically and physically handicapped.»

• Until recent months, the state of Florida, where betting at frontons has been legal for 44 years, boasted that jai alai was the cleanest pari - mutuel operation in the country.

One difficulty with jai alai is that too many politicians who are at best overly idealistic and at worst crooked have been overseeing the game, and proper regulation of the game is almost unknown.

No sport demands more of a competitor in skill, liming, position play and stamina than jai alai.

It requires years of practice and top conditioning to acquire the skill necessary to be a top jai alai player.

And the dilapidated courts simply remind us of something we used to pretend to care about, like jai alai, Jane Fonda tapes, and perhaps recreation as a whole.

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The fastest ball sport in the world is jai alai, in which a ball is caught and thrown at speeds of around 188 mph, using a scoop made of good, old - fashioned wicker.

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Bulger cynically strings him along with titbits of often outdated information, while exploiting the FBI's generosity to expand his crime empire into the once - huge jai - alai craze and even shipping guns to the IRA.

Pie nai jai (Inside of Me, Nattaphan Boonlert, 2011) 31.

Back in the day, jai - alai players were celebrities that would ceremoniously march out to salute crowds of 15,000 fans, but after a disastrous 1988 strike the game became nothing more than a cultural afterthought.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: BEST STORY EVER # 1 TIM SEELEY (W) JACOPO CAMAGNI & IBAN COELLO (A) Cover by TIM SEELEY • It's not every day Peter Quill ends up in jai... wait... never mind this happens a lot.

Hotel Villa Engracia facilities include five meeting rooms and different outside spaces (the hotel has 10 hectares of land in the heart of the Poblet Mountains), a function room inside the beautiful former church, an excellent restaurant, a 25 - metre outside swimming pool (not heated), a multiple sport court (jai - alai, mini football, basketball), tennis court, pétanque court, children's playground, table games room, table tennis and billiards.

Some airlines treat passengers to luxury at airport lounges before departure of business flights to Jaipur (JAI).

Installation view of MIT JAI INN's Untitled (Patchworks), 2000, for «Patchworlds» at Yavuz Gallery, Singapore, 2015.

Installation view of MIT JAI INN's «Dreamworks» series, 2000 — 15, for «Patchworlds» at Yavuz Gallery, Singapore, 2015.

Installation view of MIT JAI INN's «Untitled Scroll» series, 2006 — 14, for «Patchworlds» at Yavuz Gallery, Singapore, 2015.

Installation view of MIT JAI INN's «Beautiful Futures» at H Gallery, Bangkok, 2018.

The juried exhibition «Dimensions of Spirituality — Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot» is drawn from the artists» membership of the Jewish Artists Initiative (JAI) of Southern California, as part of an exchange with the Jewish Art Salon (JAS).