Sentences with phrase «of other amusements»

Truth: No one has researched the safety of riding roller coasters during pregnancy, or the effect of other amusement park rides.

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The elder Redstone controls about 80 % of the voting shares of both CBS and Viacom through a family holding company called National Amusements Inc., a chain of movie theaters started by his father (Shari Redstone controls the other 20 %).

National Amusements, the Redstone family holding company, recently said it plans to remove Dauman from the Viacom board of directors, along with a number of other directors.

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.

After Brent was shuffled aside, Sumner was left holding 80 percent of National Amusements and Shari the other 20 percent.

National Amusements is the controlling shareholder of both media companies, which separated from each other 10 years ago.

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.

The conservative politician who can listen to members of the other political coalition like Reagan did, and who can learn to respond to the arguments of the other side (as opposed to just posturing for the amusement of their own side), won't just win over those who currently think of themselves as swing - voters.

I can assure you that your assurances are worth nothing to me other than being a source of amusement while I giggle at your futile attempt at making me feel guilty for not believing as you do.

For example, income for l985 was $ 72.1 million, with $ 42 million of that coming from direct contributions and the rest earned from a new $ 30 million Victorian - style hotel, a motel, restaurant, and other activities associated with his Biblical - theme amusement park, the 2500 acre Heritage USA.

People who grow up civic are taught how to relate meaningfully to others, to put the good of the group first, to consume wisely and to use amusement sparingly, and to be concerned for rights of others, for their environment, and for the future of human kind.

Most of the world, including others who claim to believe in God (s) have looked at this with amusement and befuddlement.

31:6 — And of the people is he who buys the amusement of speech to mislead [others] from the way of Allah without knowledge and who takes it in ridicule.

In a significant departure from the earlier proposed rule, FDA's final rule expands the categories of covered establishments to potentially include not just restaurants, but also movie theaters, amusement parks, concession stands, bowling alleys and other entertainment venues, convenience stores, coffee shops, bakeries, delis, grocery stores, supercenters and fitness clubs.

There's no other company that has these four different types of amusement attractions.»

the boss is 100 % right that he can't be with the club for majority of the week then criticized it on matchdays much to the amusement of his colleagues and fellow ex-players from other clubs who loves to hate arsenal..

This statement related to his refusal to sign an exclusive boot deal, but when it comes to actually selling his body for the sexual amusement of others the former Tottenham Hotspur left - back seems far less reluctant.

The build to this match hasn't been much to care about, but the thing is, at the end of the day, it's still Randy Orton and Bray Wyatt in a match and they're going to tear each other to pieces for our amusement in it.

Unlike other sports, basketball is basically a schedule of one - upmanship, hypercompetitive personalities set against each other for our amusement.

It is a source of frustration and amusement to others that I can remember details about the Battle of Actium, but can also lose my car for several days because I forgot where I had it parked.

As an average person, I WOULD NOT want you to stand or sit anywhere near me in places including, but not limited to, a PTA meeting, a children's soccer game, a restaurant, an office cubicle, an amusement park, a bus, an airplane, a political rally, and pretty much all other public spaces, because your attitude and UNNECESSARY USE OF CAPS LOCK totally suck.

Legoland parks feature a number of roller coasters and other rides, but they are aimed more at families with younger children that those at other major amusement parks.

The rationale was to create a less expensive option for patrons who don't plan to go on any rides but do use the amusement park's other facilities, while at the same time giving the county a source of revenue to cover the costs of non-riding patrons.

With boundless opportunities for amusement, it's shameful that he chooses to get his «kicks» by killing other individuals who ask for nothing out of life but the chance to live it unmolested.

Schreibman, to the surprise of many, amusement of some and annoyance to others, last week became the first Democrat to declare for the seat occupied for two decades by Maurice Hinchey.

As the clock ticks down, Westchester County legislators and other elected officials continue to draw hard stances against an agreement between the management company Standard Amusements and the county that would cede control of Rye Playland.

«As a side effect of her love of static, she attracts balloons (much to the amusement of my other cats).»

He was captured in 1979 at about two years old and spent over a decade in a small tank in a Mexican amusement park, isolated from others of his species.

From the way their lips form words, from the body language that speaks more than words, from sharing a close space with another soul that brings yours pleasure... if we can find beguiling pleasure in exchanging words, smiles, darting eyes, in moments of understanding and amusement, we are only widening our other senses» capacity for pleasure.

The other shop girl, watching the two of us in amusement, pounced on our obvious connection and suggested we meet for coffee.

In order to enhance your amusement experience, to stimulate you and others to use our Services more extensively, and to generally sprinkle some sparkle and excitement into the Services of XDATING.COM, we may post fictitious profiles, generate or respond to communications by means of automated programs or scripts that simulate or attempt to simulate your intercommunication with another real human being (though none really exists and any dialog is generated by programming), and we may employ or contract for the paid services of real persons who may interact with you as part of their compensated employment.

I'm a football obsessed nut job who has supported Manchester United since I was 4 and... I like to have a drink with good company have a laugh and maybe make a fool of myself from time to time for others amusement.

She and her friend Gale (Liam Hemsworth) hunt for squirrels to survive — her preferred weapon is a bow and arrow — while hoping not to hear their names called in the Hunger Games, in which a young girl and boy from each district are picked by lottery for an annual, televised death match — killing each other for the amusement of the wealthy and powerful.

With the line between documentary and amusement - park ride now crossed, it's easy for a critic to start noticing Vietnam in HD's other narrative and technical shortcuts with filler and stock footage, splicing in wherever needed the images we have seen before, including those familiar payload - perspective views of bombs being dropped over the hills and villages.

The amusement isn't just for them — it's for the other children, they tell themselves, and it is, providing bright spots of levity for the bored, scared kids.

First, a seven - minute piece called «The Spirit of the Ride» has the director and various other cast and crew discussing how they drew on the amusement park ride for ideas and general atmosphere for the film; the 14 - minute mini-documentary «Dead Men Tell No Tales» (also available in the DVD - ROM content in the two - disc edition) gives a history of the «Pirates of the Caribbean» ride, complete with lots of behind - the - scenes looks at the animatronic pirates and nostalgia - inducing footage from the ride itself.

Buck's approach to meal preparation and other household tasks is a great source of amusement to his two younger charges (Macauley Culkin and Gaby Hoffmannn), but rebellious teenage niece Tia (Jean Louisa Kelly) is more of a challenge.

I don't understand how one of these things can trigger amusement and the other horror and I don't think the film tackled either well enough to resolve this.

Though the actor is clearly enjoying himself playing against type, his talents are wasted in a role that consists mainly of him watching from the sidelines in amusement as others royally botch up their criminal plans.

The members of the inner circle drink, eat, and drink some more in Stalin's grand mansion, regaling each other with stories of the war (in Khrushchev's case, telling how he threw live grenades at POWs to watch them dance) and passive aggressively mocking each other for their capital - C Comrade's amusement.

In a feat of engineering that would likely be impossible even in a world where a large majority of the population isn't dead and resources aren't limited to two island nations, the massive structure is like an amusement park ride that drops straight into the Earth, through the planet's core, and comes up the other side.

In the summer of 1987, twenty - somethings James (Jesse Eisenberg), Em (Kristen Stewart) and Joel (Martin Starr, who steals the movie) find each other in the purgatory of the Adventureland Amusement Park (actually Pittsburgh's historic Kennywood), passing their days operating rides and un-winnable games when they'd rather be anywhere else.

Best of all, though, is Malkovich, absolutely hilarious and the epitome of a good sport as the bewildered man whose head becomes a metaphysical amusement park for others.

One of the consequences of the extraordinary decline (nearly 90 percent) in federal support for education research over the past 25 years, as reported by Richard C. Atkinson and Gregg B. Jackson in their 1992 report for the National Academy of Sciences, has been the profound loss of rigorous inquiry into how schooling can be improved academically for all and how youth culture can become more attuned to the deferred gratification of academic achievement and less oriented to the immediate imperatives of money, clothes, and other amusements.

NaNoWriMo has three age - appropriate workbooks that turn the job of writing into an amusement park ride and teach the basics — dialogue, plot, characters, tension — and other fiction building blocks.

Dick Fosbury, to the amusement of virtually everyone and the mockery of many, decided to take advantage of the safe landing pad and jumped over backwards, landing on his back on the other side of the bar.

Snowbird and other ski resorts could build amusement parks in our canyons, and the mining and extraction industries would strip - mine what's left of our public lands.

Le Mans has amusements — most famously its large Ferris wheel, from the top of which you get a brilliant view of the whole site — open - air concerts, shopping and other distractions, so go armed with plenty of (well secreted) cash.

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.

You can write for you own amusement... but the real test is making your writing enjoyable for other people [and getting it in front of them].