Sentences with phrase «own occasion for it»
The occasion for the release was the end of the Bank of Canada's latest review of whether it is on track to hit its inflation target.
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But they're not just happy occasions for the couple and their families — they attract global media attention, high - profile guests, and jubilant crowds.
It was a strange formulation, given that the occasion for the reading was Etsy's acceptance of a $ 27 million investment led by Jim Breyer, a venture capitalist with Accel Partners who sits on the boards of Facebook, Dell, and, to the consternation of the Etsy faithful, Walmart.
A renowned campaigner against the rising level of poverty in the U.S., his rivals were left speechless after the media reported that he had paid more than $ 400 on two separate occasions for a trim at a popular Rodeo Drive salon.
«It will be an important occasion for them (Modi and Xi) to exchange views on bilateral and international matters, from an overarching and long - term perspective with the objective of enhancing mutual communication,» Swaraj said.
Friday marks World AIDS Day, an occasion for recognizing the myriad struggles, successes, and work left undone — societal, political, and medical alike — in the battle against HIV infection and the immune system - compromising disease it causes, AIDS.
If you're less than confident in your social skills, these aren't so much opportunities for enjoyment and networking, as occasions for serious stress.
That could cause you to get in touch with your inner child (try, for example, to tear my husband away from the Star Wars section), but it can also be an occasion for feminist rage if you happen to notice that everything from dinosaurs to chemistry kits to toy trains are marked «for boys,» while girls get... glitter and toy irons?
Ohio Gov. John Kasich said in a statement, «John Glenn is, and always will be, Ohio's ultimate hometown hero, and his passing today is an occasion for all of us to grieve.»
For others, like Nomura's Romit Shah, it's an occasion for a target - price trim.
«Constructive wallowing,» she argues, isn't simply a failure of backbone and grit, it's an occasion for self - compassion and a chance to learn about your negative feelings and fear so you can get better at working through them.
It was a rare occasion for FLOTUS, who explained that it was only the second time since President Barack Obama's 2008 election that she had ridden in the passenger seat of a car.
The job for Luvo now is to increase the number of products in each store (it currently offers 14 entrees, seven burritos, four flatbreads and four breakfasts), such that customers can buy enough different items to cover all their single - serving meal occasions for the week.
The Canadian businessman of 1930 got his news from the dailies, something McArdle keenly was aware of: «Where [the dailies] particularize in special fields of activity, we assume a general, national view of each business situation as the occasion for discussion arises.»
Whether a fan wants to ask a date to the Homecoming dance or is looking for a fun surprise at grandma's birthday party, Kool - Aid Man will be able to «krash» any occasion for one lucky winner, surprising and delighting friends and family.
As the market took the new Fed Chair's hawkish words at face value on Tuesday, which triggered the current leg lower in stocks, we suspect a more dovish stance from Mr. Powell that could be the perfect occasion for a short - covering bounce.
It was mostly an occasion for Mario Draghi to clarify some aspects of the Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) programme.
The swearing in of 85 MLAs last week was a particularly joyous and awe - filled occasion for the 70 who are brand new to the Legislature, and a bitter - sweet one for outdoing speaker Gene Zwozdesky, 66,...
«We really do believe this unlocks new channels for growth not only by unlocking new restaurants but also unlocking new times of day and new dining occasions for our customers.
The Bunny Ranch is a pretty popular destination on the outskirts of Carson City, and Dennis Hof and the brothel girls have been filmed on multiple occasions for the HBO documentary «Cathouse.»
Jacoby's occasion for recycling this tired truism is David Gelernter's new book, America - Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats), which he thinks is short on arguments and full of shrill right - wing clichés about tenured radicals and rootless intellectuals.
«Changes in how information is distributed and knowledge communicated will both create more competition in higher education and provide the occasion for new forms of cooperation.»
When investors have to argue among themselves about which news event is causing them to worry, the news is probably just providing day - to - day occasions for investors to act on more general concerns, like extreme valuation.
The loudest factions of Christianity and atheism aren't the largest, which presents the occasion for mutual understanding: open, honest, introspective and rational discussion between groups of people who share more in common than not.
The Bible does show that there are fitting occasions for prayer.
The seminary walkout of faculty and students was a carefully orchestrated occasion for publicity in both newspapers and television.
Thus there were many occasions for changes of opinion in later years, but these changes were not in the least comparable to those that had occurred before.
Liberation theology is not the occasion for the ideological promotion of a vantage point, and the fact that it can be done from all vantage points, ecumenically and universally, with each correcting and corrected by the other, should effectively discourage such.
Jeremy, In all honesty, I can not even imagine a genuine agape (love) that never has occasion for a violent response.
But it would allow Whiteheadians to affirm the unitary reality of atoms and molecules simply as democratically organized societies of occasions rather than as mini-organisms requiring a dominant subsociety of occasions for their ontological cohesiveness.
In the 1980s the Women's Party for Survival, founded by Helen Caldicott, reappropriated Howe's idea of a Mothers» Peace Day and used the holiday as an occasion for peace demonstrations.
A good occasion for reexamining the religion and politics of left and right is offered by Richard Rorty's recent little book, Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth - Century America (Harvard University Press).
Thank God for psalms of lament and psalms of joy, occasions for tears and occasions for triumph.
This hardness of life was not the oppressor; the oppressor was the occasion for the experience but not the datum of the experience itself....
Webb sneaks up on a justification for a gospel of wealth; claims that the poor providentially provide an occasion for the wealthy to show charity; discounts pluralism (though with qualification); and fails to attend to the black experience in the American story or to consider the thought of Martin Luther King, who held to a view of providential American exceptionalism yet was critical of military adventurism.
Adam Smith wrote: «But man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.»
This could be an occasion for a new ecumenism or it could open another chapter of intra-Christian conflicts.
Diwali is not only celebrated by Hindus, it is also an occasion for celebration by Jains and Sikhs (pictured).
There was a time when Reformation Sunday provided the occasion for Protestants to get together and say bad things about Catholics.
At the same time, carefully guard against any occasions for sinning.
She gave the impression that it was nice during this one occasion for people to sing the old songs and preach in the old style so white America could get a last look.
The occasion for the teaching is a problem for Jesus by the Pharisees, who ask him if it is lawful under any circumstances for a man to divorce wife.
provides an occasion for clergy to address issues of ministry that they could not have addressed realistically during their previous schooling because of the absence of firsthand experience.
They found in the ordinary workplace an occasion for doing what they would have described as their duty or their calling.
Revolutionary structures, he adds, can not serve this design except by providing occasion for each social group to participate more fully in shaping the community's economic and national life.
Can the occasion for whose definiteness it is responsible be viewed as producing this aim out of nothing?
Sir Sayyid gathered around him at Aligarh some leading Muslim intellectuals who sought to defend Islam not only against Christian missionaries but also against the conservative Muslim outlook which provided the occasion for Christian attacks on Islam.
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..
As between man and man no higher relationship is possible; the disciple gives occasion for the teacher to understand himself, and the teacher gives occasion for the disciple to understand himself.
As far as tolerance is concerned, there is little occasion for tolerating non-Muslims in Turkey today, as the country all but eliminated its once sizable Christian minorities through mass murder and deportation in the last century.