Sentences with phrase «official day off»

They are normally organized on Friday instead of on Sunday, being Friday the official day off in Qatar (and in general in Middle East).

Today is my first official day off work until after the new year (perks of being a teacher!)

I was impressed that so many people squeeze the preparations for this meal into their regular work week, since it wasn't an official day off for most people.

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Commemorating when President Abraham Lincoln freed slaves in the Capitol on April 16, 1862, Emancipation Day has been an official paid day off in D.C. since 2005, after a law declared it Day has been an official paid day off in D.C. since 2005, after a law declared it day off in D.C. since 2005, after a law declared it so.

Kick off SXSW Interactive with KIXEYE, the leader in competitive online strategy games, at the official Opening Day Happy Hour.

By carefully planning your leave around bank holidays and weekends, in the upcoming year, you can maximise your time off without having to use all your official leave days.

In the days before the invasion of Iraq, U.S. officials spoke of a «democratic domino effect,» by which the installation of a democratic government in Iraq would set off a wave of pro-democratic regime changes elsewhere in the Middle East.

He is wrong about what the bible says about being armed with the current weapon of the day, remember when the church officials came to arrest Jesus in the garden, the apostle Paul DREW HIS SWORD and cut a mans ear off, and what did Jesus say to him, he did n`t reprimand him he said, Stop there will be a time for the sword (GUN) but this is not it.So what can we learn from this, first the apostles carried weapons while in the company of Jesus, second, apparently Paul was very good with his sword, he obviously bested the guy whose ear he cut off.

I have Friday off from work, and I think it will be Official I'm Finally Making Pierogi Day.

There were several changes made following Donaghy's arrest including the announcement of the three - man official crew being moved from 90 minutes before tip - off to 9:00 AM eastern on game day.

His death touched off three days of official mourning across Spain, and his funeral became a chapter in Spanish folklore.

As I write this on the official first day of summer, it's officially time to show off the body those weights and exercising have developed.

Wenger will flap his arms and moan all day at refs and fourth officials but has not the sheer balls to impose discipline on recalcitrant and bolshy players who just won't work their socks off.

That is the short and somewhat worrisome word from Juventus» official website on Sunday, part of a two - paragraph post that says Max Allegri has given his team three days off after their win over Napoli 24 hours prior.

It is interesting to hear Wenger state in the last few days that he hoped Cesc will be with us for a good 2 or 3 seasons, just when it coincided with Barcelona declaring that they are making drastic cuts to their wage bill on and off the field.They literally have no cash to spend and though asset rich, the effects of the Spanish economy are taking affect.I think Cesc has accepted that and will show full commitment to Arsenal.He is pivotal to any success we may achieve.His whole body language has changed, he looks generally much more content, and he can put to the back of his mind, at least for the time being any proposed move, and that for us is a good thing.Barca are disguising their troubles by saying yet again they have made no official approach to our club, purely to save face.

Again, it is not in an official certification kind of program, but it is just a quick thing that moms could know right off the bat we are making decisions like where our children should spend their days while we go back to work and so, wanted to get take on this.

The week of Memorial Day was her first official week off daycare due to being sick.

When I mentioned it to my friend, she suggested that it may be the beginning of labor, but I laughed her off, as all of my previous births had been ten days to two weeks after the official due date.

The budget includes a 2.75 percent cost - of - living increase in January, and a 0.25 percent increase in October, which officials said would take the sting out of unpaid days off work.

De Blasio's testimony this morning before a joint legislative budget committee in Albany marked the kick off of what's known as «Tin Cup Day» at the Capitol — typically a day in which mayors and other local government officials from around the state provide their reactions to the governor's budget proposDay» at the Capitol — typically a day in which mayors and other local government officials from around the state provide their reactions to the governor's budget proposday in which mayors and other local government officials from around the state provide their reactions to the governor's budget proposal.

Exactly one week after election day, outgoing Gov. David Paterson and incoming governor Andrew Cuomo had their first, official get - together to kick off the transition.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER In a surprising development that apparently caught activists and elected officials off guard, the organizers of the Saint Patrick's Day Parade on Fifth Avenue announced that a gay - identified group will be allowed to participate next March 17.

Brushing off Mayor de Blasio and other leaders who say López Rivera should not be honored at the Puerto Rican Day Parade, Mark - Viverito joined the former FALN militant as he was feted at an official parade reception Friday night at the New York Hilton in Midtown.

Topping off New York's weeklong celebration of Earth Day, State Department of Environmental Conservation Chief of Staff Julie Tighe joined state and local officials for a ceremonial tree planting on Arbor Day.

Demonstrators kicked off the rallies — which they called a one - day strike — about 6 a.m. outside a Midtown McDonald's, 1651 Broadway, where about 30 people including fast food workers and elected officials filled the sidewalk.

In September 2011, Alistair Darling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time of the RBS collapse noted in leaked excerpts from his upcoming book, Back From The Brink: 1,000 Days At No 11 that Goodwin behaved «as if he was off to play a game of golf» while officials struggled to prevent a meltdown.

Whatever the outcome of Stevenson's case, the accusations alone — which came just days after corruption charges against two other elected officials — seem to have chipped off another chunk of the public's brittle trust of politicians.

Likely 2016 Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina kicked off a five - day swing through Iowa — two days longer than Hillary Clinton's first official presidential trip there last week.

MRSA Survivors Network, the official organisation for World MRSA Day, along with its sponsors - 3M, Tec Labs, Cepheid and Pfizer - will kick - off events in the USA for World MRSA Day with an inaugural pre-launch international press conference and event at Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois USA on October 1st 2009.

State officials promised late Friday that tens of millions of dollars will start flowing first thing next week to financially strapped contractors on the SolarCity construction project, saving the jobs of 200 workers laid off earlier in the day because the state had fallen months behind in payments.

But, off stage, perhaps no elected official in New York spends more time on the telephone with reporters, calling them day and night, coaxing, massaging, disputing, and cajoling — always off the record.

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City Councilwoman Anastasia Robertson explained that city officials had turned water back on at two occupied structures where days earlier they had evicted tenants and shut off the flow because the landlord, who lives in a nearby suburb, was thousands of dollars in arrears.

City Councilman Daniel Dromm held a press conference with other elected officials and community members Thursday to demand that the Department of Education designate Diwali as a day off for public school students.

A team of official and unofficial Brooklyn cheerleaders — including Senator Charles Schumer, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adam and Barclays Center developer Bruce Ratner — kicked off the DNC's two - day tour with a pep - rally - like press conference outside the arena complete with a marching band and praise for the borough's history and infrastructure and «swag,» in the words of Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo.

«Look, these things happen every day, but yes, I believe I guess that other people will take it as a very strong message from the governor that you better back off,» the official said.

Days after a federal judge blocked his efforts to furlough half the state work force, Gov. David A. Paterson is drafting a plan that would lay off thousands of government workers at the beginning of next year, a move officials say is necessary to help balance the state budget.

«We had an experience with Department of Homeless Services, where suddenly state officials were inspecting our shelters with a vigor we have never seen before and requiring that issues that were complex be addressed in a matter of days, or they would threaten to cut off our funding.

And school officials used the occasion of the first day of school to show off one of the new I - Zone Schools in the district.

Today the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System along with local officials and students from the Jewish Community Center and Bennett Park Montessori School kicked off «Read Aloud 15», a new campaign which encourages adults to read aloud to a child for 15 minutes every day.

During a comment period concerning the over-ride of County Executive Day's veto of the proposed changes to the Rockland County Charter, Legislator Sparaco meandered off into a diversionary diatribe against Republicans and Bloggers accusing Republicans of competing to see who hated Hasidics more and accusing bloggers of intimidating elected officials.

Reservoir levels were retreating so sharply during summer in the Southern Hemisphere that officials had warned that the city's water supply would be shut off on «Day Zero» in April, forcing most of the city's 4 million inhabitants to queue for rationed potable water.

After a day of collecting some very promising data, Mather and colleagues and were so excited that they set off the following day at dawn to the national park — the official access point to Masaya — only to be robbed at gun - point in the car park.

I would walk around awkwardly for those days with one of those obnoxious smiles you can not wipe off of your face until I would make my way to a drugstore for a pregnancy test to make it official.

Happy Memorial Day weekend and my official (even though it's officially unofficial) kick - off to Summer!

Locally, Memorial Day also kicks off the beginning of weekly farmers markets and is the first official day pools open up all over the vallDay also kicks off the beginning of weekly farmers markets and is the first official day pools open up all over the vallday pools open up all over the valley.

Memorial Day seems to be the official tip off of summer and is only a couple weeks away at this point.

For me, the Fourth marks the official kick off to summer and those long weekend days catching rays by the pool (and maybe having a few Greyhounds).

Their first official effort together was the authentically disturbing, thought - provoking 28 Days Later, which started off a zombie movie and turned into a commentary on humanity's darker side.

Ahead of its UK release on Boxing Day, a new trailer has arrived online for Steven C. Miller's upcoming crime thriller Marauders which stars Bruce Willis, Dave Bautista, Christopher Meloni and Adrian Grenier; check it out below after the official synopsis... After an untraceable group of elite bank robbers execute the perfect heist, making off with millions in -LSB-...]