Sentences with phrase «on attending last»

Given the generally negative comments about last year's dinner, I wasn't planning on attending last week's, either.

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Last winter I accompanied my husband on a business trip to Chicago and made an impromptu hair appointment while he attended meetings.

Manafort also attended a meeting last year at Trump Tower with Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. and son - in - law Jared Kushner as well as two Russian lobbyists who were said to have offered dirt on Hillary Clinton.

If you've just attended a four - year institution, your own laptop might be on its last legs.

Prince William and Prince Harry attend the European Premiere of «Star Wars: The Last Jedi» at Royal Albert Hall on December 12, 2017, in London, England.

Several students and parents affected by school shootings including last week's massacre at a high school in Parkland, Florida, attended a listening session with President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday.

Last fall, Byers attended a conference on Arctic boundaries in Moscow where the keynote speaker was Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

And, somewhat clumsily, I ask Repin a question that's been on my mind since attending last year's Open Innovations: If Moscow's tech corridor has already failed to take root on its own, what is the point of all this?

Three Republican presidential candidates including Romney and some 1,500 activists attended the last conference on Feb. 25 sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, four days before Breibart's death.

Jia declined to comment on Trump's decision not to attend the summit, which would have marked the US president's first visit to Latin America since taking office last year, but mentioned Chinese President Xi has visited Latin America three times in the past four years.

Last week I attended a wonderful conference in the university town of Tübingen, Germany, on «Debt: The First 3500 Years,» to bring ancient historians together to discuss David Graeber's book Debt: The First 5000 Years.

The irony of the quip was not lost on those attending an event in Kuala Lumpur last week to commemorate Malaysia's second prime minister Abdul Razak Hussein, who died 40 years ago.

Vice President Mike Pence called former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was convicted of federal contempt of court last year, a «champion of... the rule of law» and said he was honored that Arpaio attended an event with him on Tuesday in Tempe, Ariz..

Sam Clovis, a White House adviser on the US Department of Agriculture, is leaving the department, and his last day will be Friday, Politico has reported, citing a source who attended his going - away party on...

But he's never found time in his packed cultural outreach schedule to attend a Pride parade, and last fall singer k.d. lang needled him on Twitter: «You're gay, aren't you?»

Patrick Walravens of JMP Securities maintained an Outperform rating on salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE: CRM) with an unchanged $ 92 price target after attending the company's «Dreamforce» user conference last week.

The last session I attended on day two of the Chicago Search Engine Strategies conference was RSS Blogs and Search Marketing moderated by Danny Sullivan.

It was a very different side to the genial face Muscat put on in Australia last month, where he attended the Commonwealth Games as the Commonwealth's chair - in - office, met Malcolm Turnbull, and pressed the flesh among the Maltese community — the largest in the world outside Malta.

A number of association's franchisees attended Restaurant Brands International's annual meeting of shareholders last week and spoke with on site media and analysts.

And the LCMS held an «International Conference on Confessional Leadership» last year in Atlanta, Georgia, with more than 120 Lutheran church leaders from around the world attending.

I attended myself back in 2000 in Rome, and I can assure you it was no picnic, but rather a spiritual pilgrimage which has had a lasting effect on me.

Our subsequent on - line interactions have proven to be very beneficial regarding the «road less traveled» part of my life, and these last more than five years of friendship and attending counsel have been incredible.

Years ago, as I spoke farewells to those who had attended the last session of a particular inquirers class — the very meeting in which I sought to «close the deal» of bringing new members on board — I noticed that two young couples stayed behind, talking intently with each other.

The meeting lasted three hours and touched on matters ranging from terrorism and education to human rights, according to Johnnie Moore, a California pastor and public affairs executive who attended and served as a spokesman for Trump's ad hoc board.

Last year, my son and I attended the White House conference on bullying prevention.

when I first started reading up on how extreme Christian fundamentalism has become in the last 30 yrs (since I left Evangelicalism), I was stunned to find that there is a whole movement afoot to keep children, especially girls, from attending college — yes, even BJU — for fear of them being «indoctrinated» with «liberal ideas».

«The fact is, the last seven years have taken their toll on me, my family, and you,» he told those attending the convention.

The last straw was when the parish council precluded any children from attending Sunday mass as that is a quiet time and that children should only come to mass on Saturday nights.

Last time, on behalf of readers, I asked you, «Should an egalitarian attend a complementarian church?»

Last year I attended a wonderful Wendell Berry book group which met in the jewel of Lynchburg, the White Hart Café, the best Inklings - themed beer - serving coffee shop on the planet, a special PLACE created by our friends Ed and Debi Hopkins, where the more literary and egg - headish Liberty University students come to be Christian intellectuals, hipsters, and sometimes, Berry - ites.

Each of these schemes has its advantages; on the whole the last is probably best, since it provides for a certain variety in the over-all program and makes it possible for those who attend not only to take part in one large meeting where the whole group is stimulated by consideration of a single topic over a considerable period of time, but also to share in special «interest groups» which will give them the opportunity to follow up lines of thought that particularly interest them or to explore problems that are peculiarly relevant to their own needs and concerns.

There is on one side of this coin the students» tendency to attend lectures which they need for their examinations; on the other side is the fact that there is strong political support for Küng among the students (there was a huge rally and torchlight parade last December on the night following the Roman edict to withdraw his missio canonica), and for many students, both Protestant and Catholic, the issues in the Küng case are larger than the man himself, Küng's status at the university is not dependent on the number of students who come to his lectures (nor on the number of his doctoral students), but the fall semester will be some index of the viability of this new «third track» in theology.

On the other hand, if we attend to the last eighteen years for which they offer figures, surely the most important period for extrapolating into the future, then we find that economic well - being improved only one - sixth as rapidly as per capita GNP grew!

In observance of the fifth anniversary of these institutes, the First American Convocation on Church Growth was held last winter; it was attended by more than 400 pastors, spouses and lay workers.

Last night I attended the Sun Ripened (a vegan / raw dinner put on by Laura Miller at the Aesthetic Union.

Case in point — last weekend I attended a natural dye workshop on beautiful Lopez Island that I can't wait to tell you about but it'll have to wait until next week.

Last month, over 80,000 innovators attended Expo West, a gathering of industry minds focused on the development and production of natural, organic, and healthy products.

I attended because I had been invited to present on the work I've been involved in around the People's Food Plan over the last 12 months, with the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance.

Last spring I posted about a lecture I attended at the SCAA conference on coffee and climate change.

I had the pleasure of attending the most recent Montreal edition of Restaurant Day last week, on Saturday May 16th 2015.

* has been on the SEPC membership roster for at least 12 months and has attended at least one event (Southern Exposure and / or Southern Innovations) within the last 12 months.

I have polled my sweet food blogger friends for their best last minute edible gift ideas for the holidays, and shared a few of my favorites too, including some things that I will likely make this weekend for the few holiday get - togethers I plan on attending.

Last week he attended the NBA league marketing meetings in Miami and sat alongside Russell, Julius Erving, Bob Lanier, Alonzo Mourning and Bill Walton on a panel to discuss leadership.

Last Oct. 15, after attending the UCLA basketball team's Midnight Madness, Ogden and two teammates were on their way home when they passed a large party and saw a group of police officers in riot gear preparing to break up the festivities.

Lots of media attention surrounding this games because a boat party attended by Vikings that allegedly involved drunkenness, nudity and visible sexual activity on a pair of charter cruises last week.

Last July, on the morning after winning four ESPY Awards in Los Angeles and attending parties afterward, Brees met Durkin for a 7 a.m. workout at USC.

In the case of Sierra Smith, a starting guard for national - power St. Mary's - Stockton last year, there's no reason to doubt «'' she's attending classes at Salesian - Richmond, where she will have an immediate impact on a program looking to replace USC - bound Minyon Moore.

A communications major who was on schedule to graduate this spring, Gathers interned at a Los Angeles TV station, and last summer he attended Roy Englebrecht's sports - casters camp in L.A.

Last season I attended the FA Cup game against Watford and out of all of my trips to the Emirates this was the worst, the atmosphere was flat and I could see many empty seats — whilst the fans in the stadium were more interested in taking selfies and recording every set piece instead of cheering their team on.

Last January, says Sheppard, he attended a heated meeting with Clark and Kane that shattered the quiet of Bryn Mawr Hospital, where Kane was recovering from a broken leg (he slipped on the ice New Year's Day).