Sentences with phrase «opening presents from»

The pizza dinner took a slightly bizarre turn when she started opening her presents from her dad — wrapped in lavish gold polka - dotted paper — and the first was a container of Borax.
Hopefully you were good this year and will be too busy opening presents from Santa!
Today we'll be cooking a huge family breakfast and opening presents from Santa.
On Christmas morning, they eagerly open their presents from their grandmother in what is now a very special family tradition.
It baked while we opened presents from Santa, and was done just in time for brunch.
Much pacing followed as they waited for their dad to arrive at 7.30 am so they could disembowel their Santa sacks and open their presents from their mum and dad.

Not exact matches

Savannah Guthrie read a statement from NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack as an opening for the Today Show on Wednesday, stating, «while it is the first complaint about his behavior in the over twenty years he's been at NBC News, we were also presented with reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident.»
From presenting them with their favorite service providers upon opening the app to engaging with them at the right moments during the day, data can help provide an unrivaled customer experience.
Mexico's energy reforms, which are opening the sector to private companies, present great opportunities for investors from the United States and Canada, according to Coldwell.
The incubator offers an open - floor design plan to spur collaboration, weekly networking sessions for treps and investors (with cerveza and snacks, of course), as well as a pitch night where the top concepts from students and alumni get presented in front of venture capitalists and others with deep pockets.
As soon as you're prepared to open a real - money broker account, you will be presented with four different account types to select from.
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Another important feature of this event is the Open Innovation Challenge, where a company will present a real - life supply chain problem, and team of experts from various companies will work together to find the best possible solution!
The paper hypothesize that the change occurred because the Federal Open Market Committee switched from using the federal funds rate as an operating instrument to using it to implement monetary policy and presents evidence from a variety of sources supporting the hypothesis.
These responsibilities include: (i) fostering processes that allow the Board to function independently of management and encouraging open and effective communication between the Board and management of the Company; (ii) providing input to the Chairman on behalf of the independent Directors with respect to Board agendas; (iii) presiding at all meetings of the Board at which the Chairman is not present, as well as regularly scheduled executive sessions of independent Directors; (iv) in the case of a conflict of interest involving a Director, if appropriate, asking the conflicted Director to leave the room during discussion concerning such matter and, if appropriate, asking such Director to recuse him or herself from voting on the relevant matter; (v) communicating with the Chairman and the CEO, as appropriate, regarding meetings of the independent Directors and resources and information necessary for the Board to effectively carry out its duties and responsibilities; (vi) serving as liaison between the Chairman and the independent Directors; (vii) being available to Directors who have concerns that can not be addressed through the Chairman; (viii) having the authority to call meetings of the independent Directors; and (ix) performing other functions as may reasonably be requested by the Board or the Chairman.
Why I Am a Catholic presents the encyclical as the «great break» between most Catholics and the Vatican, for it opened the way for «qualified and loyal theologians» to dissent from church teaching and emboldened the laity to follow their consciences.
The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.
To break categorically with the present evil aeon is to cut the ground from under one's feet, to open oneself physically to death by breaking with the power structure of an evil society, and to open oneself spiritually to death by renouncing self - seeking as a motivation and giving oneself radically to the needs of one's neighbour, as one's real freedom and love.
We also believe that by being open to what others see from their different perspectives, we can correct and expand our present thinking.
Finally, as Blake envisioned, it is the human body of Christ who negated the God who is present in the memory of the past, and only when the Christian has wholly been delivered from remembrance and recollection will he be open to the Word that is fully incarnate in the present.
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.
Here's another one: An entirely natural wormhole opened in the space - time continuum, and a guy from the present got sent into the past, and told someone about the Big bang theory, and that story made it into the Quran.
On Christmas morning, there are very few joys that are as great as seeing your loved ones open that very special Christmas present that they have been hoping for, that one that makes them smile from head to toe.
This means that not only is structure present in the world in a sense analogous to that of mind, but those structures must be accessible to reason, that is, they are present or open to mind or reason in the realized fact of nature's web of interconnections (to borrow from Quine).
Nevertheless, a new ethics marks the linkage of freedom to hope — what Moltmann calls the ethics of the mission (Sendung); the promissio involves a missio, in the mission, the obligation which engages the present proceeds from the promise, opens the future.
I believe there is a particular need at the present to focus attention on utopian dreaming as a way of shaking us loose from obsolete ways of thinking and opening us up to those ideas, attitudes, and values that are appropriate for the future.
God is God of the present for the sinner precisely because He casts him into remoteness from Himself, and He is at the same time God of the future because He never relinquishes His claim on the sinner and opens to him by forgiveness a new future for new obedience.
Most of these lectures aim at bringing the insights of Hinduism and Buddhism closer to Indian and Western Christians as well as philosophers, to deepen their understanding of faith and expand it to other forms of belief.43 His anthology «The Vedic Experience» which has been accepted and respected by many Hindus, tries to present texts from the Veda and the Upanishads in such a way that they become open towards other beliefs and transparent for the depth of faith.44 An important aspect of his literary production, already central at the beginning, but gaining prominence again lately, has been to address a Western public that faces the challenge of having to seek its religious identity and not being able to take it for granted.
In hope, we open ourselves to yet undreamed of possibilities, and this frees us from the settled past or a hopeless present, setting us forth to adventure and even to get lost in the indefinite mystery of the future which through revelation seeks us out.
According to Jesus, the kingdom, while future in its full consummation, is also immediately here, its doors wide open now to men of the kingdom's quality, and, far from being merely a future expectation, entrance into it is the crowning privilege of the present.
It's a terribly painful thing when you open up about abuse from the past, and it is used to abuse you again in the present.
Hungary has nonetheless opened its airspace to NATO warplanes, and has allowed free access to its military facilities, including the air base at Taszar, used at present as a transfer point to the Balkans for troops and supplies coming from Germany.
Already in 1957, with the publication of his pre — Vatican II book New Perspectives in the Rome — Reformation Controversy, he had moved away from a primarily apologetical and antithetical stance because he was now prepared to ask how we can be open to the truth present in serious ecumenical theological dialogue.
Set in 1959, the narrator reflects back on the events from the present, highlighting the novelty of the encounter in the film's opening line: «I was twelve going on thirteen the first time I saw a dead human being.»
The very fact that our present is so detached from its past, from Christendom, with its corollary that an acceptance of the present demands a negation of Christendom, of the Christian God, can mean that the horizon of our present will open into a future epiphany of faith that will draw all things into itself.
But this is to ask the Christian if he dares to open himself to the Christ who is fully present, the Christ who has completed a movement from transcendence to immanence, and who is kenotically present in the fullness and the immediacy of the actual moment before us.
But we had something else as well, something that turned us away in an odd distaste on Christmas afternoon from the explosion of opened presents, ribbons spread across the floor, and bright balls of crumpled wrapping paper, red and green — the living room transformed into Ali Baba's cave or Hollywood's vision of a bandits» lair.
San Francisco Catholic Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone gave the opening speech (despite very public pressure from California politicians to skip the event) and Papal Nuncio Carlo Maria Viganò also present.
Now, free from its smothering shroud, he was present and open, able to love and to be loved, even on days when he was exhausted and in pain and grieving over the losses he had suffered thus far and those yet to come.
Most Random: [Regarding Song of Solomon 5:4] «In the present passage KJ rendered «and my bowels were moved for him,» which would not now be considered felicitous, although the Rev. Dr. Sibs in 1648 for his sermons on Chapters 4 - 6 took his title, «Bowels Openedfrom the passages.»
For another thing, it is not open to me even to be edifying, since the time is later than his, much too late to edify or do much of anything except plant a foot in the right place as the opportunity presents itself» if indeed ass - kicking is properly distinguished from edification.
We had — family come from as far as Edinburgh and Devon, 2 Christmas dinners to accommodate said family, 2 present opening sessions, some good long walks to work off excessive food, cousins all catching up with each other, a bit too much to eat and drink, relaxing afternoons when we could do nothing because it was raining and anyway it was getting dark soon so we might as well call it a day, and a mammoth monopoly game, which carried on so far that someone had bought jail, chance and community chest, and someone else had «banker» debt status, which meant he could borrow as much as he wanted.
However, and speaking from experience, I bet we will open up all of the presents tomorrow morning...
We found those on an Open Doors chile event in Parma, Italy, presented by Maurizio from Ca» d'Alfieri (see our report)
While it was difficult, she says organising her life and meals around the cookbook — a present from her husband — «opened a new horizon in my life [and] there wasn't a week that I completely disliked».
The present owners, Lynn and Sandi Ford, came into the family business in 1973 and expanded the business in 1986 by creating «Ford's Fancy Fruits & Gourmet Foods,» which sold fruit baskets with NC peanuts, later expanding to open 2 retail stores carrying more than 300 NC gourmet food items from around the State.
The 4th annual ultimate taco and craft beer celebration, KLOS presents Sabroso Craft Beer, Taco & Music Festival, powered by Gringo Bandito, will take over the picturesque Doheny State Beach in Dana Point, CA on Saturday, April 8 from 1 p.m. — 9 p.m. (VIP opens at noon).
Representatives from New York's first Noodles & Company restaurant, now open at The Gallery at Westbury Plaza, present a check for $ 5,000 to the American Red Cross on Long Island.
Christmas morning means: Early wake up Bed head pictures while opening stockings Moving into the room with the tree and shiny bows and name tags from Santa Taking turns opening gifts Maybe, sometimes, accidentally giving away the presents before the person actually unwraps the gift... And then breakfast, with extended family.
From the opening bell, Machen retreated, forcing Liston to move and turn, never presenting an open target.
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