Sentences with phrase «people at conventions»

I met a LOT of people at conventions and other places who'd say «I want to read your book», and my answer essentially was «you can't».

There were many people at the convention who indicated their political interests at the convention.

Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 is that person at a convention wearing an elaborate Dormammu outfit complete with a flaming head.

The big draw about the Hugos, is unlike the Nebula Awards, the votes are cast by people at the convention.

We take time to observe and study the book industry design trends by networking with readers, authors and bloggers online and in - person at conventions and signings.

It was fascinating to see the different stages authors were at in their careers and it was great to see so many people at the convention learning how market themselves more effectively.

I started on Twitter, then met people through podcast interviews, and then met people in person at conventions / conferences like London Book Fair and Thrillerfest.

Not exact matches

Speaking to 30 people at a luncheon isn't as effective as exhibiting at a national convention attended by thousands.

The U.S. delegation was led by Ivanka Trump, presidential daughter and adviser, who on the first evening addressed the 1,500 people assembled at the convention center in Hyderabad.

A convention center in Minnesota has opened to accept people forced from their homes by a smoky fire at a nearby Wisconsin oil refinery.

While it seemed silly at the beginning for three of us to refer to a project by a control code instead of by the client name, this early convention saved us much heartache later, when we were 30 people running 25 projects with five or six of those projects being for the same client.

People in the crowd at Hillary Clinton's 2016 US presidential Election Night event watch results begin to come in on a big screen at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York.

And that might be why 25,000 people showed up last spring at the online video industry's annual convention in Anaheim.

The NRA, bolstered by Trump, has been a vocal proponent of allowing more guns in public places, including schools, but the exception for the convention has raised eyebrows and prompted skepticism among students and at least one parent who lost his child in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people were killed and others injured.

Thousands of people are expected to attend the event, held at the Washington, DC Convention Center Saturday October 23 and Sunday October 24.

WHO are the people promising 30 % annual profit at these conventions?

[167] Obama delivered his acceptance speech, not at the center where the Democratic National Convention was held, but at Invesco Field at Mile High to a crowd of approximately 84,000 people; the speech was viewed by over 38 million people worldwide.

As it turned out, I became a lot more comfortable in front of people after speaking at the conventions.

On Friday, Kenney said at the same convention he had «people jabbing me in the chest and shouting expletives» at him.

CNN: The GOP has a Muslim problem Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, political comedian and editor of the politics blog The Dean's Report, explains why the absence of a Muslim - American imam at the Republican National Convention «sends a message that these people are «others» and not truly Americans like the rest of us.»

The Keswick Convention's expecting to see more people than ever before at its retreats this summer.

But one person isn't waiting another minute to help rescue the spirits of the men and women stuck at the Houston convention center that's taking on displaced people.

During his ten years as state senator and four as attorney general, Earley spent most of his time «working on how to put more people in jail and keeping them there longer,» he said in a speech at the Washington Convention Center.

The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy, women and african american would not have the right to vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular

Essentially, this is a set of sexual Geneva conventions: You never knew it, but not only do you have the right to minimal standards of treatment if you ever become a prisoner of war, but when you were five, you had the right to learn at school all kinds of things about what some people like to do in bed, and if your parents thought that really they'd rather you didn't hear about that stuff at school, or at least not yet, they were... well, they were violating your rights.

At the end of the year I concluded that a group of people can not regularly gather for what they feel to be religious purposes without developing a complex network of signals and symbols and conventions — in short, a subculture — that gains its own logic and then functions in a way peculiar to that group.

A January 1932 Central Press report on Cox opened with the words, «a new deal is in order for the American people» six months before the Democratic nominee for president would use the same phrase to describe his platform at the Democratic convention in Chicago.

In a rare unscripted moment at the Democratic National Convention this week, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called for a voice vote to pass an amendment to the party platform reinstating language that identified Jerusalem as the rightful capital of Israel and that referred to people's «God - given potential» in its preamble.

In 1972 I met for the first time real process people, such as John B. Cobb and Lewis Ford, at the Convention of the Learned Societies in the field of Religion, held in Los Angeles.

«Every day people in town for conventions come into [Bee Coffee Roasters] and tell me, «Wow, I thought Indianapolis would just be a city of chain restaurants with a giant speedway, but it's actually really cool here,» said Joanna Greves, barista trainer and roaster at one of Indianapolis's best specialty coffee shop.

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Now, the idea of pumping in a public restroom at a crowded convention center is actually pretty disgusting, but that has nothing to do with the bathroom being for people of all genders.

Here are answers to some of the questions active people commonly ask about protein in a sports diet as presented by prominent protein researchers at the American College of Sports Medicine's Annual Convention in May 2012.

We would like to know more about these programs, so today at the School Nutrition Association convention (where 4,500 school district people are gathering), I'm announcing a national survey to gather baseline data on farm to school.

This strange convention is used because most people can't be 100 percent sure of their dates of conception, and this method at least provides a standard starting point.

At the other end of the spectrum, the Constitutional Convention decided to forbid the English practice of allowing the government to seize the entire estate of a person convicted of treason.

If any delegate bound by these rules, state party rule or state law to vote for a presidential candidate at the national convention demonstrates support under Rule 40 for any person other than the candidate to whom he or she is bound, such support shall not be recognized.

Professor Ransford Gyampo, Director of the Centre for European Studies and a political science lecturer at the University of Ghana, has asked the Convention People's Party (CPP) to shift attention from the personality of Dr Kwame Nkrumah and focus on the principles of the party.

«What I'm saying here is pointing at a very, very irrational possible outcome of our potty electoral system, which is that a party that has spectacularly lost the election because fewer people are voting for it than any other party, could nonetheless according to constitutional tradition and convention still lay claim to providing the prime minister of the country.»

It's possible behind - the - scenes negotiations between conservative activists and Romney aides will be sufficient to keep a lid on things today... but the Paul people are angry — and goaded on by their leader, who was denied a speaking slot at the convention.

When my convention starts, if people I don't agree with are organized and motivated, many state delegations could be packed with people who want to alter so «ONLY Corporations And Fetuses are People,» «Private gun ownership of any type of Firearm is an Inalienable Right» and «Citizens must Show a Positive Net Worth of at least 500,000 US Dollars in order to be allowed to vote.&people I don't agree with are organized and motivated, many state delegations could be packed with people who want to alter so «ONLY Corporations And Fetuses are People,» «Private gun ownership of any type of Firearm is an Inalienable Right» and «Citizens must Show a Positive Net Worth of at least 500,000 US Dollars in order to be allowed to vote.&people who want to alter so «ONLY Corporations And Fetuses are People,» «Private gun ownership of any type of Firearm is an Inalienable Right» and «Citizens must Show a Positive Net Worth of at least 500,000 US Dollars in order to be allowed to vote.&People,» «Private gun ownership of any type of Firearm is an Inalienable Right» and «Citizens must Show a Positive Net Worth of at least 500,000 US Dollars in order to be allowed to vote.»

He also was one of the people who spoke for Cuomo at the Democratic convention in Rye this summer.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has barred former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and ex-governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, from displaying their posters and banners at next Saturday's convention.

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar will not vote at the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, national convention which holds December 9 at the Eagles Square, Abuja.

«We don't think that's good public policy because in essence what they're trying to do is absolve people from violent and heinous and felonious crimes,» Flanagan said at the state Republican convention in Buffalo this year.

President John Mahama on Sunday, October 2 2016, joined hundreds of people to worship at the Royal House Chapel to partake in the «Convention of Saints» communion and impartation service in Accra.

The Summit, which is taking place at a time President Mahama has been traveling across the country in furtherance of his transparency agenda to account to the people of Ghana, is important in moving forward Ghana's anti-corruption agenda as contained in the National Anti-Corruption Action Plan (2015 - 2024) and our commitments under the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC).

It's a relaxed environment down here and then tonight we have business at the convention, but it's just good to be with people from around the state who you don't get to see everyday.

In the few hours since Republican V.P nominee Sarah Palin made fun of Barack Obama's community organizer background at her speech at the RNC, the Obama campaign has already sent out a mass fundraising email using her remarks as a hook: «Why would the Republicans spend a whole night of their convention attacking ordinary people?

The Peoples National Convention (PNC) and the Convention Peoples Party (CPP) were not present at the balloting.