Sentences with phrase «part of their past»

More critically for Dorsey, Noto and company, there is a special opportunity to turnaround the negative perceptions that Twitter has carried for the better part of the past few years.

After all, for every door you go through, you're closing the door on part of your past, so each new door should open multiple options.

Uber has been testing the food - delivery service inside of its main app for the better part of the past 18 months, but it then launched as a standalone app available in Toronto, Wired reported last month.

Retired Gen. Roger A. Brady, who was responsible for American nuclear weapons in Europe as part of his past role as commander of the U.S. Air Force there, turned to Apple support this year when he noticed something suspicious on his computer.

George tells me that Nava described it as a «bad part of his past» and that Nava was insistent that the assault on him had not been fabricated.

When I did come forward as an abuse victim, this part of my past was wielded like a weapon by some of the elders to further discredit my concern, essentially saying that I was imposing my own perspective or that my judgment was too clouded.

However, it is difficult to conceive how the complex unity and integration of parts of a past experience can be mediated by the brain.

To be an actual occasion is to occur and then become part of the past, succeeded by other actual occasions.

Through the evangelical part of its past it brings Luther's contribution directly into play today.

The later present contains the present of this moment as a part of its past enfolded.

For a large part of the past school year, my daughter and her classmates went to school under police protection.

Once it has completed its concrescence, attained unity, and become fully determinate, it becomes part of the past from which new actual entities arise.

By being a part of the past, these distinctions all become meaningless, for that which is completely past has no present to which it may attach itself.

Also, as soon as this new event of feeling is complete, it becomes part of the past world and compels future occasions to take account of it.

While in temporal occasions, succession does mean the fading of the occasion as it becomes a part of the past, he is arguing that the counterpart of the occasion in God has a greater unity of life than it had in the temporal world and that in God»... succession does not mean loss of immediate unison.»

One response is that while in the Qur» an the imperative to «slay the unbeliever» (S. 9:5) comes without any clear historical context and therefore appears to be a command for today, the Bible's commands to slay Canaanites are imbedded within stories that clearly are part of the past and have no manifest application to the present.

It can not have any intensity of being unless the important part of the past is favorable to its existence at a particular intensity.

Each new occasion in our body feels, as part of its past, occasions which are members of the society of occasions which constitute the mind of human being.

Every American can in some sense join James Baldwin in saying that the Chartres cathedral is not part of his past.

Or if you've lived a life where partying was a part of your past, how many memories do you have that you would revisit without squirming if they were broadcast on your Facebook timeline for all of your friends and family to see?

Nazism is taboo, while communism is a non-threatening part of our past.

As part of this past weekend's wild weather, more damage was reported Monday in Sun City and in the Temecula Valley Wine Country, with microbursts the likely culprit in both cases.

For many Americans, a big, sweet part of our past involved chocolate - especially Hershey's chocolate in cake and cupcake recipes.

We spent a good part of this past Sunday lounging there with egg salad sandwiches and lemonade and local cherries, happily folded into a summertime cliche.

Since I've spent the better part of the past year in a hospital bed (both inpatient and here at home), and the last 4 years struggling with my health, I've become a bit out of the loop when it comes to the food scene here in Columbus.

It is no exaggeration to say I spent the better part of this past spring testing every bag (and box) of muesli I could get my hands on.

Slices of this chocolate bundt cake spent the better part of the past week in the car with me.

The Frenchman does score on average 20 plus goals a season and he has spent large parts of the past two seasons with injures.

«His era is now part of the past.

So let there be squad rotation, let there be more good times at the Olimpico and, just like Juventus has done for the better part of the past two years in the Coppa Italia, let there be advancement in that «other» tournament our favorite team is taking part in.

Success for the Croatian national team has become a part of their past it would seem.

Which is great, because I believe I have a lot to add — being twice divorced and having spent the better part of the past few years writing about divorce for various online publications as well as my own blog — as well as learn.

Even though we all shared a large part of our pasts, we couldn't have truly known each others» lives while we were children.

Steve has been home for the better part of the past few weeks (one of the joys amidst some not so fun benefits of working for yourself), while I've been working on some quilting, I mean writing projects.

The better part of the past five years of my life I have had a little nursling by my side.

The standard, 4 - wheeled child stroller has absolutely been utilized for running as a part of past years.

A large part of the past legislative success for athletic trainers in Pennsylvania is due to The Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers» Society, Inc. (PATS) annual «Hike 2 Harrisburg».

Cuomo did, however, focus on a few things that haven't been a major part of past speeches, such as term limits and his idea to have new inspectors general take on the auditing powers traditionally held by the state comptroller at SUNY and CUNY.

Greenberg has spent a significant part of the past decade battling New York Democrats.

The Brits have been doing so for, I suppose, the best part of the past 1000 years.

Having spent the better part of the past two weeks at the New York State Democratic and Republican conventions, I am pretty convinced that this cherry tree chopper was not telling a fib.

Conner's work in politics included a spell in a Democratic House office and on the pre-presidential campaign of now Virginia Senator Mark Warner (where, I should disclose, as part of my past political life Conner sat about six feet away from me).

The governor has spent parts of the past three weeks at the Capitol during the busy legislative session, but has made no public appearances.

«It will always be part of my past, but has not stopped my wife and I from building a wonderful family together.

«Now we have the opportunity to find a part of the past that is normally forgotten.»

The pumping of groundwater, by contrast, has been left largely unregulated for the better part of the past century across California and parts of Arizona.

A large part of our past activity has focussed on identifying principles underlying the functional organisation of the early secretory pathway (ER exit site (ERES)- Golgi) in cultured Drosophila S2 cells (1)(2).

I mentioned this to executives at Exxon before it was Exxon Mobile many times back in the 1990s when I was working with you all that if you were an energy company rather than a fossil fuel extraction company you could be part of the future instead of part of the past.

Perhaps it's the fact that I've spent a good part of the past few months traveling, but I have a feeling that a healthier attitude towards my body is more likely the reason.

Especially when we've been so used to wearing skinny jeans for a good part of the past decade.