Sentences with phrase «opened the hearing by»

Commissioner Elia opened the hearing by telling told lawyers they have until July 12th to submit closing briefs, with replies by other parties due by July 19th.

Senator Lamar Alexander (R - TX) opened the hearing by telling the panel to «finish the job» and increase the budgets for the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Energy's Office of Science, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Republican Lamar Smith, chairman of the committee, opened the hearing by saying «alarmist predictions amount to nothing more than wild guesses» and that «much of climate science today seems to be based more on exaggerations, personal agendas and questionable predictions than on the scientific methods.»

Not exact matches

Also, by not making assumptions we put ourselves in a position where we are genuinely open to hearing what people have to say and not action under the delusion that we know what others are thinking.

Comey preempted his hearing by authorizing the release of his opening remarks for testimony on Wednesday, giving reporters and political observers time to comb through what the former FBI director plans to say about his private communications with President Donald Trump.

As Tillerson delivered his opening remarks, an unnamed woman could be heard in the background shouting, «My home was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D — CA) opened by listing all the questions Zuckerberg avoided answering throughout the course of the hearing, including questions about Facebook tracking user activity after a person logs off, whether Facebook can track users across multiple devices and who is Facebook's biggest competition.

But I was just amazed by how everyone, young and old wanted to be involved... and was so deeply enriched and touched by the experience and the laughter and the love I experienced from the people I met and how women would in particular open their hearts to me and tell me the stories of where they've come from, particularly because I have the language and was coming there as a woman and just how touched they were that I was there as a woman from England who's learned the language and who's an artist and running this project and come all the way to see them so they didn't feel forgotten I think that was pretty much what they felt... that their stories were being heard so they don't feel forgotten knowing the tents would be around the world.

Most of us have heard the term, and most smart businesses have added checks and balances to their processes to try to overcome confirmation bias — for example, by making sure that their business is structured to allow the open flow of information between executives and those close to whatever problem is being addressed, or by including designated naysayers in the conversation around a decision.

Just heard that the first day Apple Park opened, seven people injured themselves by walking straight into the glass doors.

At a hearing yesterday, the SFMTA said it hopes to open up the permitting process by May 1.

au skill is enabled on an Alexa device, customers can say «Alexa, open Taste» and they will be able to hear the Recipe of the Day or search 50,000 recipes by type, ingredient, theme or event.

«It's been eye - opening to learn about all the animals affected by natural disasters like Hurricane Irma, so when I heard about this event, I knew I wanted to be involved,» said Warriors center Zaza Pachulia.

As for the argument that we should look to our churches... the BILLIONS spent by organized religion to build exorbitant places of worship (Jesus preached in open fields and I'm confident that God hears MY prayers in the privacy of my home) and the building of health clinics in third world countries would help a lot — but they are not inclined to help those in need HERE!

Abrahamic religions believe the Old Testament, New Testament and Koran are not open to edit, because we do not believe in modern prophesy — Hell, if we did, Oral Robers would have rewritten everything by now cuz to hear him tell it, it basically lives in God's kitchen with Him 24/7.

By the illusion of critical power that turns us from the source of truth, or by the eternal partner to whom we must open our hearing to find our waBy the illusion of critical power that turns us from the source of truth, or by the eternal partner to whom we must open our hearing to find our waby the eternal partner to whom we must open our hearing to find our way?

I was looking for a place to share this... our church many years ago was going through all this legalism stuff... I heard this from a friend of mine because by the time it all blew open we had stopped going to church... One guy was always trying to say something «wise» so he shared with the group that the other day as he was showering it occurred to him that «the hand washes the body» and repeated it slowly — theee haaaand waaaasheeees the bodeeeee» — My friend took it home with a «meh» reaction and shared it with her non-believing hubby....

I still think we should still go to the church... or maybe a meeting where all the believer can learn from each other, strengthening each other, pray for each other etc, and of course, to worship God together... It is true that sometime I feel that I do not learn many thing from the sermon, but, many times, I learn by going to the church, knowing that I will not learn something from the preacher, humble myself to still listen to God and worship Him,,,, it is such a blessing to hear others testimony about how God works in their life, it is such an encouragement to see people open up their problem, then, we can pray about them..

Endorsed by Ann Voskamp, Mary Karr, Sarah Bessey and Yours Truly, Found opens a door to Benedictine spirituality through which regularly, busy people can enter and taste, see, smell, hear, and feel what it means to live life as prayer.

I'm not any other Christian on this site writing His truth so that you open your eyes to see and hear His truth instead of being blinded by the lies of satan.

Maybe like in A Clockwork Orange, the clowns should submit to having their eyes held open and being forced to watch The Killing of Sister George a hundred times followed by lockdown in a room for three days where all they can hear are Barbara Streisand albums.

Or maybe it would be Billy Graham, the open - air crusader heard by more than two billion people, including a few presidents.

I was just sharing last night how a woman at my last church was talking about unconditional love in the face of her grandkids opening presents, but when she didn't hear the tried and true message from the previous pastor (who by the way was one of architects of the church's mission to «love God and love people unconditionally) that was a problem.

I stemmed the flood of tears and rose to my feet, believing that this could be nothing other than a divine command to open the book and read the first passage I chanced upon; for I had heard the story of how Antony had been instructed by a gospel text.

Jesus used it to help the community see that because they were not open to hear and accept the way of justice and righteousness brought by John, they did not repent and change.

Now having said that, this ex-communication is an opportunity for Kelly to break free of the chains of pride, deception, and false doctrine that bound her in the Mormon church, and to be open to hearing the true nature of Christ and her inability to please God by any works of her own.

Jehovahs witnesses will be the ones to actually have a bible handy and nobody and I mean nobody can refute them using the bible and they know this thats why they have videos warning people to stay away from them because if people would actually hear them out for 5 minutes with an open mind they would realize that their church leaders are lieing to them for money and by they way Mr Grahm how much does your orinization charge for bibles and literature?

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

You all remember his half - pagan, half - Christian bringing up at Carthage, his emigration to Rome and Milan, his adoption of Manicheism and subsequent skepticism, and his restless search for truth and purity of life; and finally how, distracted by the struggle between the two souls in his breast, and ashamed of his own weakness of will, when so many others whom he knew and knew of had thrown off the shackles of sensuality and dedicated themselves to chastity and the higher life, he heard a voice in the garden say, «Sume, lege» (take and read), and opening the Bible at random, saw the text, «not in chambering and wantonness,» etc., which seemed directly sent to his address, and laid the inner storm to rest forever.

The message of faith which comes in the word we hear opens by grace the eye of inner experience so that it may dare to understand itself and to accept the «sweet secret of its strangeness» as its true meaning.

We ought, he said, to know intuitively that we're going to die even if we'd never seen a corpse, never heard of death or anything, by the fact that when we're young we have an open future and we can do this and that and the other thing.

Joy itself is evangelical, and people are more easily shocked by a happy, chaste Christian than they are by hearing about statistical studies of homosexuality or even philosophical arguments, such as sexual acts having intrinsic meaning and being open to new life.

In the opening sections he laughed at the way in which the theme of faith and works had now been taken up so widely by all preachers — «they slyly leave their sermon book under the bench and whatever else the shouting in the pulpit used to be about, and they begin to preach to us again on faith and good works, about which one never used to hear or know anything».

Commission members are to open their April plenary by meeting with victims privately, and discussions are continuing to create an «international survivor advisory panel» to advise the commission and make sure the voices of victims are heard in all its deliberations, the statement said.

We should do this, however, in such a way as to be open to the question of whether we can hear in these other traditions the voice we have been disciplined to hear by our own Scriptures.

A few years ago, Representative Dan Burton (R., Ind.) opened a congressional subcommittee hearing on human trafficking by stating, «It is hard to believe in the 21st century that we are even talking about this.»

Then, at a time when I seemed to be rather rapidly losing ground, I heard some things that gave me interest enough in mental healing to make me try it; I had no great hope of getting any good from it — it was a chance I tried, partly because my thought was interested by the new possibility it seemed to open, partly because it was the only chance I then could see.

In 1961, Family Radio began the Open Forum program, a live weeknight call - in program hosted by Camping, and broadcast on the more than 140 stations owned by Family Radio in the U.S., and heard worldwide via shortwave and a network of AM / FM stations.

We heard from ambassadors Barry DuBois who shared his own store about his ongoing battle with cancer, and Sarah Wilson who made us pause by opening with the thought that «people coming together is what really matters», and I learned a bit more about what Cancer Council does.

lol I thought I heard someone opening the fridge in the middle of the night... because midnight frosting stealing by the finger full totally justifies all that air travel

«We opened up Novant Health midwifery services about two years ago and that was all hospital based deliveries by a midwife, but what we were hearing from our moms was, «Gosh, I really wish I could deliver somewhere other than a hospital,»» said Kirsten Royster, service line leader for OBGYN in Novant Health's Winston - Salem market.

«Rather, the Assembly process at issue here (including the appeal) is governed by the Assembly Sexual Harassment Policy, which contains no provision for — or even any suggestion of — a full evidentiary hearing with open discovery and full cross-examination rights, either at the Ethics Committee level or in the context of an appeal,» Levine wrote.

13:23 - I'm hearing that Yvette Cooper, shadow home secretary, will open in the phone - hacking debate, followed by Dominic Grieve, attorney general, for the government, and then probably Chris Bryant, the Labour MP and phone - hacking victim, who called for the debate.

Reinvent Albany at Council Hearing Calls for Using Open Data to Measure Completion of Agency Required Reports Also Supports Mandating Webcasting of Candidate Debates Reinvent Albany testified today the City Council should create a simple online dataset to measure whether agencies are completing the hundreds of reports required by city's laws.

«I appreciate that the criterion for removal is very narrow, however, I believe that to remove an elected school board member, overturning an election, it should be done by the Board of Education, providing for transparent, open hearings and ensuring due process,» said former School Board President James Sampson.

An open letter was published by a group called #LibDems4Change urging fellow party members to elect a new leader «who will get a fair hearing from voters about Liberal Democrat achievements and ambitions for the future».

opened Tuesday's hearing by calling on military commanders to drive out sexual assault.

BY CHERYL SLAVIN The monthly New City Library board meeting opened up with what President Tom Ninan called «the first positive comments... heard in a long time.»

One politician will not view or hear the Queen's speech at the opening of parliament as they will be held hostage by her majesty

The country's largest retailer made good on its promise to boycott the «When Walmart Comes to Town: The Effect on Small Businesses and Communities» hearing, called in response to ramped - up efforts by the retail giant to open a store in New York.