Sentences with phrase «of public occasion»

However, it is not appropriate for the CEO of Nintendo of America to share my comments on your speculation at this sort of public occasion.

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Chinese - language reports in Hong Kong in March said the Securities and Futures Commission, the main stock market regulator, had requested the trading records of Meitu from local stockbrokers on three occasions since December, when it raised $ 629 million in an initial public offering.

Those government acknowledgments of religion serve, in the only ways reasonably possible in our culture, the legitimate secular purposes of solemnizing public occasions, expressing confidence in the future, and encouraging the recognition of what is worthy of appreciation in society.

«Capital punishment on this particular occasion was inappropriate and any expressions of sympathy or compassion are extended in my capacity as a private individual and not in any professional or public capacity.»

If so, it is deeply inconsistent for such officials to grant themselves the right to public religious legitimation and blessing while denying them to the rest of the population, who seek them at public occasions meaningful to their own lives.

We know from their actions of today how Christians think they're being «persecuted» if they can't festoon their religious holiday decorations all over everybody's property and make everybody else recite Christian prayers at all public occasions or stamp their theology on our money and insert it into our pledge of allegiance.

Nonetheless, unsettled and unsettling questions need a careful public airing on occasion, or else they fester in the shadowed corners of our culture, breeding resentments and suspicions that corrode our common life.

Plays are play, as Walter Ong observes, except for the playwright and perhaps some of the paying public.5 Moreover, while most would say that tennis and drama provide at least the occasion for play (even if some tennis players, for example, are not actually «playing»), the list of possible play activities is much broader than we often imagine, including much of life - more, in any case, than just tennis, reading, dancing, etc..

The protocol for such a visit — which is also the legacy of historical relations between the Holy See and Italy — includes an exchange of public speeches, and requires that both the Pope and the President wear their designated official attire for state occasions.

And there is, in fact, very little evidence that champions of ecclesial pluralism have bent over backwards to insure that their opponents are given a fair hearing on occasions of public debate, nor are they conspicuously tolerant or open - minded when they happen themselves to be in positions of extra-ecclesial authority — as journal editors, perhaps, or as deans of theology faculties.

The ongoing public debate over the legalization of assisted suicide draws participants whose primary concern is not the issue itself but who find it the ideal occasion to advance collateral social initiatives.

Britain does not enjoy his company, he has destroyed our democracy, our once centered BBC, rendered our politicians as corrupt, lied to the public on numerous occasions, denied the British public any say on the E.U, denied us the right to know anything of his secret mass immigration policy's, caused more racism and divide in different forms in communities, turned us into the most watched CCTV state in the world, not to mention the wars.

After the terrible experience of the European wars of religion occasioned by the sixteenth - century Reformation, many of the brightest and best, including many thoughtful Christians, decided that God and the gods could have no place in the public telling of the myth of origins.

Are these little gatherings, then, for all that seems domestic and intimate in them, also occasions of public proclamation, gatherings where — as in Nazareth — Jesus speaks with true authority?

The end of an occasion's private life — its «perishing» — is the beginning of its public career.

Like Yale's Stephen Carter in The Culture of Disbelief (a book Clinton has promoted on several occasions), Clinton sometimes seems to suggest that it is fine for religiously based views to be aired in the public square, so long as they don't seriously impinge upon the business of governing.

The motive was the public rendering of thanksgiving / praise to God by the person commissioning the ritual in the presence of relatives and friends for God's signal intervention in saving the man (and his family, if the occasion called forit) from death in war or in some similar grave danger such as famine.

Our calling is not to live wholly in this world, and for this world, but to live in this world as children of the Father who sees and is known in secret — but not to let that relationship become a matter of exhibitionism and the occasion for public approval.

On occasion, however, heeding first principles uncovers something of pressing public concern — something newsworthy, right under everyone's noses.

Rather, the prehensions have public origins, the objective data; they have private subjective forms, based on the private aim of the actual occasion; and then the occasion, having unified its prehensions, passes back into publicity, providing data for new prehensions.

I'm liberal, and atheist, but in occasions such as this, I will still bow my head at public events for prayers and whatnot, not that I'm praying, but out of respect for the beliefs of those around me.

And I do hereby request all the People to abstain on that day from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to unite, at their several places of public worship and their respective homes, in keeping the day holy to the Lord, and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious duties proper to that solemn occasion.

Occasions which have perished subjectively become public, i.e., they acquire a multiple presence in the relative actual worlds of other oOccasions which have perished subjectively become public, i.e., they acquire a multiple presence in the relative actual worlds of other occasionsoccasions.

At their best these ritual meetings seem to have become great liturgical occasions, a public expression of the generically religious experience, the sense both of ultimate dependence and of spiritual freedom.

«We decided to conduct these activities on the occasion of the world food day celebration because we want to generate a strong public opposition against golden rice which we believe is a poison disguised as food,» said Diego Dela Cruz, chairman of the advocacy committee of MASIPAG.

He dumped sixes, The Mail recorded, «on to the tops of marquees, over ice - cream vans, into factories and, on one occasion, almost into the car park of the Dog and Duck public house.»

Although a majority of public bets typically take favorites, we do often times see «trendy underdogs» at various occasions like March Madness and the NFL Playoffs.

In games played with these extremely windy conditions, the majority of public bettors have taken the under on just 121 occasions.

There are growing calls for public inquiry by fans of other football clubs into the decision by Boris Johnson to let the Hammers rent the stadium built by taxpayers» money for the 2012 Olympics, an occasion of great British national celebration.

It saddens me that some of the most confident women I know have felt very self - conscious nursing in public, particularly on the first few occasions, concerned about the reaction from their friends, the public, and business owners alike.

Your child may fuss at the thought of wearing a skirt in public, but it's up to you to make sure that she understands the importance of dressing for the occasion.

I still have to underarm him out of public places on occasion.

Heck, even adults may need to take advantage of these public pottying tips on occasion.

Public health responses to this outbreak consisted of notifying shareholders about the outbreak on three occasions and requiring the dairy to provide additional written notification about the outbreak at milk distribution points.

«This has happened on a number of occasions and sadly they use such mediums to tell all manner of lies about the case and the accused to the public.

In addition to producing studies on pension reform and the property tax cap, the Empire Center is also behind the website SeeThroughNY, which publishes salary, pension information and other records (the Empire Center and the Manhattan Institute have gone to court to get public disclosure of the pension data on occasion).

At the request of a person directly affected by the exercise of a power, a court may conduct a so - called judicial review to determine whether the exercise of a public power on a given occasion is, or is not, within the limits of the power.

Public gatherings, often claimed by the media as reaching the tens of thousands, were cancelled on numerous occasions due to low attendance.

«They discussed a wide array of topics, but this was mostly a social occasion,» White House spokesman Josh Earnest said in announcing the meeting that was not on the president's public schedule.

Explaining the motive for the petition, one of the petitioners Abigail Elorm Mensah said the former Attorney General has on several occasions conducted himself in a manner that has brought the party into disrepute and public ridicule and also weakened the unity and cohesion of the party in breach of articles 46 [8] and 45.

And what on earth would the public think, seeing 400 of us at some great debate or occasion sitting there «twittering» rather than listening, thinking and speaking?

Speaking at the occasion, the NEC boss reminded the newly elected public officers of the huge responsibility that comes with the mantle of leadership entrusted to them.

The occasion for this week's unforced offering of the processed seeds of the Theobroma cacao tree was the news of Mr. Blass's retirement from public office.

«There've been a number of occasions (vacations) I had to cut short because of the requirements of public service and politics.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Governor Andrew Cuomo used the occasion of the Empire State Pride Agenda's annual Manhattan fall dinner to announce new regulations that will provide anti-discrimination protections in employment, housing, public accommodations, and access to credit for transgender New Yorkers.

There have also been occasions on which the offence of misconduct in public office has been appropriate.

On more than 50 of those occasions, Cuomo, in his duties as governor, was there on the same day, according to state records, raising critics» questions about whether the governor noticed his aide using public resources down the hall while on campaign duty and how well the administration kept the public and private functions separate.

Good government groups used the occasion of Silver's sentencing to renew their calls for comprehensive ethics reform, including limits on lawmakers» outside income and a comprehensive overhaul of the operation of the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

There is always going to be public hostility on this sort of occasion - governments are never popular and this one is making an art of the practice.

«David... believed in constant political campaigning as the daily style of politics and in exerting control - freak discipline over his colleagues, with steady injunctions about the use of set policy lines and slogans on all public occasions, of the kind which has given a talking clock style to many politicians.»